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French classroom painting showing a child wearing a dunce cap, 1880

DUMB MONEY WINES

Wall Street has meme stocks. Wine has Château Margaux and cult Napa Cab. The herd has been doing this for decades. We just never called it what it is.

The Fiera del Bue Grasso in Carrù, Piedmont — Italy's oldest fat ox festival

The Slow Life

December 1992. Carrù, Piedmont. A cow's head in a stock pot. Carlo Petrini standing next to me. A local TV crew. And the broth that changed the argument.