Hello Michael!
Wednesday May 22 1996 22:04, Michael Loo wrote to Ian Hoare:
 IH>> I had wondered about the cep, but felt that Greg would have
 ML> The highlight was the sliced ceps, which in their marinated
 ML> cooked state and in the rather poor light (it was 9 PM) didn't
 ML> strongly advertise the pores.
Yes, you're right. Like that they wouldn't. Not only that, but with very 
young specimens, the pores are hardly noticable - though they're usually less 
than 4" across.
 ML> for sale, and I made the following (I got the mushrooms and
 ML> the steak both for $2 a pound)
GRRR.
Nice looking recipe though
 ML> 1/4 lb shiitake mushrooms (Bud Zilko, you may use morels)
Is that a generally acceptable substitution? (see the recipe I posted for 
Karen M). It is utterly impossible to find fresh shitake here in correze.
 ML> Ate this with an '89 Johannisberger Erntebringer kabinett,
How very interesting... Not the combination I'd have thought of in 100 years.
 ML> available, all the good stuff being at a friend's cellar.
not that a single vineyard Johannisberger Kabinett is ever boring.
 ML> It actually went okay (no fireworks, but neither dish was
 ML> damaged).
That set of criteria really isn't bad is it? I was impressed with it when 
Wine magazine suggested it for that tasting I todl you about.
We went out, not for any gastronomic purposes, (though we had some lovely 
wines, as it happens) but for a concert in a gorgeous 13th C abbey in a 
village called Cadouin. We have a good friend whose father was one of the 
second rank of british composers of the early 20th C. A guy called Maurice 
Jacobson, don't know if you've ever heard of him. He was really quite eminent 
in a rather establishment kind of way.
  Anyway it was the 100th anniversary of his birth, and we had a complete 
concert of his works. Some songs - very "Let the peoples sing" sort of thing, 
nice but not too testing, a trio - piano, clarinet & cello, spoiled for me by 
a poor clarinetist who wasn't up to the others (piano was Julian Jacobson 
(younger son) who's a good player).
  Then we had "The Lady of Shallot", which I was dreading, not much relishing 
victorian melodrama at the best of times! It was much better than I feared. 
Jacobson managed to avoid any cliches, which is hard with a poem like that.
But the high point, for me was a world premiere of a 4 hands version (piano) 
of a piece called Theme & Variations, which was superb, and wonderfully 
played by Christopher Black and Yoko Katayama, who met studying in Paris with 
scholarships at the Paris Conservatoire, and now live near Cluny. He studied 
briefly as a schoolboy with Jacobson, and the couple, who specialise in 2 
piano and 4 hands duets are partcularly well known in the far East. We were 
lucky to get them.
The wines we had were all from Bergerac, and all delightful. I disgraced 
myself by telling everyone how good the wines were (they were, but that's not 
the point!).
All the Best
Ian
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