It’s best to drink moderately right now – so choose a wine that soothes
Strange the things you learn at a time when a trip to the bins is what passes for a night on the tiles.
Stuck inside with too much time on my hands, I’ve discovered that nettles make better soup than damply greasy chips; that rice ground up in the coffee grinder is a perfectly adequate replacement for flour; and that the dregs of an old jar of sumac bring just the right edge of earthy bitterness and scarlet tint to a homemade, non-alcoholic Campari-esque cordial (made with the juice and zest of two oranges boiled down with a cup apiece of sugar and water).
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