Lunch today will consist of Somerdale English cheddar with caramelized onions, duck fois gras and comté, good bread and a chilled bottle of 2014 Batard Montrachet.
Standards must be maintained, even in a Plague. Especially in a Plague.
By his mad revels, by the gilded snare
By all thy hopes of joy
Oh, fortunes child, beware !
- William Julius Mickle, 1810