>Charles, what about red wine? There is increasingly *very* good evidence that you'll live longer if you drink it.
I used to think I had some kind of histamine reaction to red wine because it often seemed to trigger migraines ( the bullet with my name on it ) but I have come to realize it is wheat or gluten that is the culprit ( good French bread often went with good red wine ) So now I enjoy it with dinner often, albeit more when I travel than at home. My idea of eating well is pretty much Catalonia, Provence, Tuscany, Western Turkey. All of that involves wine with dinner ( or whatever is local for anisette ) But I really do drink it for the taste,not the buzz.
Of course in college - when buzz was all important - since I didn't like beer I drank red wine ( jug - the wine of which the critics said "I don't see how they can make a profit on this stuff at $1.00 a gallon" ) or sometimes of the 'sparkling' variety ( some demon had unleashed something called Ripple on the world ) Bad bad hangovers. But as I said, that was the sixties so non liquid alternatives soon became available and I didn't drink for consciousness altering again for thirty years.
Charles Hankey
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