 My wife and I were taken by friends to the movies yesterday, and I was embarrassed that my offer to pay for our tickets was refused-mind you at Whiteleys £8.75 each seems steep when we are used to going to the Coronet at Notting Hill for £3.50 on a Tuesday. So I offered to give everyone dinner, and on the walk home we couldn't get a table at our favourite restaurants, so I remembered I had some very fresh white crab meat in the fridge at home bought from Kensington Place that afternoon, and I am sure that forms the basis of something . So passing by Costa's Chip shop I bought two portions of their deliciously light in fat chips, and we got home prepared a salad and in less than 5 minutes sat down to the most wonderful fresh crab and chips, with some home-made mayonnaise. I wrapped one of those chilling sleeves from the freezer around a bottle of Bouchard Pere's Chevalier Montrachet 1983. Golden in colour, I was nervous that it might be a bit oxidized, but it was wonderful, complex, honeyed, yet bright acidity still giving it crispness, actually a bloody marvellous wine. The second bottle I decanted and it opened up quicker. Our friends thought it one of the best dinners they had had for ages, and went away with plans to scrap all those complicated poncey dinners in future and stick to something simple. I might have to contribute some mature white burgundy though! CB 14th DEC
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