Vin

d'cation.

Nothing

is simple. But these did strike me as particularly bogus.

Mme Sarkozy

is just as easy as you've read. Funny, I've thought Italian cooking is getting more French and have almost reconsidered an old rant. 

Thinking out of the bottle

Why do I think something this intelligent would take five years to plan in Manhattan and one week in Albany to shoot down? Then again, are there even 12 working water fountains in this borough anymore? We can't even get these. (Filched from Tengrain.)

And that mythical 3-cent discount

at Gourmet Garage won't do a thing about the Everests of plastic bags.

(Forgot the HT: ristocrats.blogspot.com.)