Beard of the Week Special: Valentine's Day 2008

The beards in this special edition BOW belong to yours truly, Jeff (on the right), and his beloved partner, Isaac (on the left). Bill will recognize this photograph, because he took it.

The occasion was our first night in Rome on our trip in April 2007. To celebrate our arrival we had dinner al fresco at our favorite spot

I believe I told the story before about how our previously favorite restaurant, Trattoria da Guiseppe, had been transformed into Trattoria Cecio since our visit only a year previous. It's a heart-wrenching, heart-warming story of food found, food loved, food lost, food regained. If I haven't, I'll tell it later. Anyway, in this photo we are at the beginning of our meal with some sense of foreboding but before the full unfolding and subsequent resolution of the drama.

As I remember it, I was having the Ensalata di Mare (an arrangement of cold seafood, with things like pickled squid and sardines, with a sprinkling of olive oil) and Isaac was having Gnocchi a Quattro Fromagi. The Gnocchi we treated as one of their signature dishes, it was so good. What Bill was having is harder to say–it looks like an antipasto arrangement of cheese and sausages. You can see from the way I'm holding our camera that I probably just took a picture of my salad. Yes, we are both of such an age that eating is easier while wearing reading glasses; for some reason, guiding blurry food to one's mouth is a great challenge.

Anyway, the whole point of this Valentine's Day Special BOW was just to give Isaac a virtual kiss and say thanks for being mine these past 15+ years. Here's hoping that we're not even a quarter the way through yet.

Posted on February 14, 2008 at 00.05 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Beard of the Week, Personal Notebook

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Thursday, 14 February 2008 at 02.29
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    Nice beards, intriguing food. Happy Valentine's Day to you both.

    All this talk of food — now I've got to go have a snack. Not that I have any business with one.

  2. Written by Isaac
    on Thursday, 14 February 2008 at 10.42
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    My dear, my own!

    What a sweet Valentine from you!
    So when are we going back to Rome…or elsewhere?
    You know that life without would be unimaginably dull and empty.

    Now if we just had tons of money to keep us in the manner in which we so hope to become accustomed…

    In the meantime, you are more than enough to keep me happy.

    Happy Valentine's Day.

    And, in the interest of liturgical correctness:
    Happy Sts Cyril & Methodius Day too!
    Apostle to the Slavs, Co-Patrons of Europe.

    (You may recall that St Cyril is buried in the second level church of S.Clemente in Rome)

    –Isaac

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