Summer Fare

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It was a fine meal, and when they finished with it they were all happy and exultant. They were beautifully drunk and happy, with that golden, warm, full-bodied and most lovely drunkenness that can come only from good rich wine and mellow ale and glorious and abundant food - a state that we recognize instantly when it comes to us as one of the rare, priceless, the unarguable joys of living, something stronger than philosophy, a treasure on which no price can be set, a sufficient reward for all the anguish, weariness, and disappointment of living....

Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River

Halibut in a ginger, lemon butter sauce with a tuna and faro nicoise style salad.  The wine is a 2012 M. Chapoutier Belleruche Cotes du Rhone Rose.