Soup

Eastside Road, March 10—

A DAY AT THE MUSEUM, the DeYoung Museum on San Francisco, where lunch was a "Cordon Bleu" sandwich: chicken breast (too dry), "Black Forest ham" (okay), unidentified cheese, mustard sauce, tomato, okay potato salad, really nice onion marmelade, on a roll.

Sauvignon blanc, Sonoma county, 2008

Better, though, our supper: a couple of bowls of good minestrone soup made by friends in Santa Rosa, eaten among a number of friends, followed, of course, by a green salad.

Nero d'Avola, 2008

Oh: after much discussion, we've promoted yesterday's Strozzapreti velutata to the Hundred Plates.