The NIH finally getting around to placing soy products under the microscope. And we feed this to babies in formula then wonder why there is so much autism. According to today's WSJ there is a steroid genistein in soy which mimicks the effect of estrogen and is potentially toxic.

Frank Bruni gave Del Posto three stars yet his review of this Gargantua sounded far more like a one star. What possessed Mario and Joe, son of Lidia, to do something so Wal-Martish? Anyway it makes Symposia miss the madness of New York.

Not to belittle the culture of the grape one must admit winespeak is necromancy as in medieval scholasticism. The minutiae of distinctions is meaningless and really just provides careers for strange one-dimensional people. Thus at a wine tasting yesterday Symposia sipped and spit (what a disgusting ritual) 20 Italian wines and after three or four glasses could barely tell the difference between them; by 1o glasses it was impossible.