Milan! We just landed in Milan this morning and I will be spending the next 10 days hoping Italian vignerons speak English or French. I just got back from a Milan Jeebus. Jeebus is what local winelovers call a wine gathering at a restaurant where you open 25 bottles and do not pay an additional tip to the servers. The other odd local custom is that at a Milan Jeebus they serve all the wines wrapped in aluminum wrapping. You have to talk about the wine and guess what you are tasting before the Aluminum wrapping is peeled off. I feared that the other local custom would be that all the food at the restaurant would be served blind, but this was not the case. I do know that there is a restaurant in Paris which serves food in the darkness, as an experiment in fine dining and sensory deprivation. Here in Milan, they only apply this method to wine and have not yet caught up with the Parisians. I could still see the dishes as they arrived at the table, surrounded by great wines wrapped in aluminum foil. The other odd thing about Milan is that they are trying to cash-in on the all the DaVinci Code frenzy. There are exhibits and events about DaVinci and his code everywhere you turn. This is just like the Europeans -- an American writes a great book and they rush in to rip it off and make money for themselves! Aren't there international copyright protections? |