Frank J. Prial famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.
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What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.
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A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.
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My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'...
-- Frank J. Prial
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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.
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I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and ***** out for no one.
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All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
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