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With the right accent, the right clothes and the right posture, I can see Meryl Streep pulling it off. I'm not a big Streep fan, but I actually can see it working. The biggest danger as I see it (and the reason I'm NOT a Streep fan), is the possibility of it becoming more of a satire than a depiction. I may be in the minority, but a lot of Meryl Streep's work seems overdone and takes me completely out of the narrative being illustrated. But I'm crabby and inclined to bitch, so, it's probably just me.

I just ate the first tomato out of our garden today. German Red Strawberry heirloom variety that I've been saving seeds and growing for 10 years now. I've recently tried several others' tomatoes out of their garden, and I have to say (admittedly immodestly) that these tomatoes beat every tomato I have ever tasted. Exactly the right amount of tart vs sweet. Few seeds, never mealy or ribby, just wonderful. They make an awesome sauce without the need to sweeten them at all and are simply divine with some ground pepper and balsamic (which incidentally will be my 'snack' at work tomorrow,alone with a green pepper out of the garden). If you can get your hands on some of these seeds, start them indoors early (they are slow germinators) and they're a late variety. I'm in CT and I just picked the first one yesterday and folks I know that are blissfully happy with their 'Early Girls' and 'Big Boys' have been picking for weeks already. But the wait was oooooh so worth it!

OK, so I was wandering around foodie sites. Mostly due to my recently listening to Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Kitchen Confidential’. I surfed my way to the foodie mecca http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=home. I got inspired and did the following: In a clean jar, I put: 750ml (approx 3 cups) Luksosowa potato vodka 5 tea bags of Earl Grey tea and let it sit for approx 5 hours. I removed the tea bags and let it chill. To make the Martini, 3 parts tea-infused vodka 1 part Caravella Limoncello 1 slice lemon It is wonderful! I’m not fond of mint but I bet a sprig of mint would be divine with this also.