Restaurant and market reviews from Spain.
Barcelona (and Sitges) by Mouth
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Mas Comtal
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Last weekend, Sadé and I went wine tasting at a vineyard called Mas Comtal in Penedes. I have been to a couple of different wine tastings before. When I was in Spain about 9 years ago when I visited to a big corporate cava producer. It was fairly unimpressive. It felt like a commercial venture–wine Disneyland. And when I was in France in the summer of 2019, I went to a couple of small...
Libraries and Restaurants in Oxford
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Friday was my final day in Oxford. And so, consummate foodie and lover of books that I am, I thought I would offer a few comments about libraries and restaurants in Oxford. I spent most of my time working in Harris Manchester College’s Tate Library. The college started life as an institution to train Unitarian ministers and the library is literally crammed with ephemera celebrating past...
Mourning the Past
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In this sermon I consider how we might re-imagine mourning the past.
When Our Heart in a Holy Place
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In this sermon I ask, what makes a place a holy place?