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@Obivia - using Mozart and Beethoven to analogize the difference between improvisation and tinkering may be entertaining, but it's not by any stretch grounded in reality.

The fact is that Beethoven first made a reputation in Vienna as an improviser of such prodigious skill that his contemporaries--both admirers and critics--report that rival pianists refused to engage in improvisatory contests with him, lest they be publicly humiliated; and, in several cases (most famously, Daniel Steibelt and Josef Woelffl), bested rivals thereafter refused to accept invitations to social events to which Beethoven was also invited. Mozart himself, in 1787, following a demonstration of Beethoven's improvisitory art, famously remarked, "Keep your eyes on him! He will some day make the world talk about him."

Furthermore, a cursory examination of Mozart's sketchbooks is sufficient to demonstrate that the notion that Mozart sat down and turned out note-perfect first drafts is nothing more than a pious fiction.

Might want to check whether it's a medicinal wine rather than a drinking wine.

The only ginseng wines I'm familiar with are medicinal wines and should be treated as such (consumed in small doses), as overdosing can have serious side effects.

@JKAL - "Serve immediately with warm tortilla chips": can't do that until you post the Food Lab on making tortilla chips (hint, hint). I mean, you really don't expect us settle for inferior chips, would you?

@monkeyrotica - Yeah. Rare single malt scotch goes SO much better with Squirt.

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Columbia River Kit Carson F4.

Porterhouse

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Favorite knife? That would be a CRKT Kit Carson F4.

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