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Unsplash Edson Saldana - uncooked steak

Can it be done? Bond says it can. The second of Tam's current series on food and wine matching. See last week's Nectarines, goat's cheese and English pink.

‘Bond slipped off the bed and examined the contents of the tray. He smiled to himself. There was a quarter bottle of Bollinger, a chafing dish containing four small slivers of steak on toast canapés, and a small bowl of [Béarnaise] sauce.’

So quotes Jonathan Reeve in his article, Champagne – James Bond’s royal flush, from the book Diamonds Are Forever.

Jonathan and I are forever boring each other...

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