I've just returned from my second consecutive week on the road. One is San Jose - one in Dallas. So there were lots of breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Only two meals stood out (is it me or are all steakhouses pretty much the same?) - a grilled cheese, sliced green apple and walnut sandwich at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth (more below) and stone crab claws at Truluck's in Dallas. It was my first experience with stone crab - out here in Oregon it's almost 100% dungeness crab - and, wow, those claws were amazing. And they come with mustard, which really worked in a weird symbiotic way. Had a really good wine that night too, a Jermann Pinot Grigio, which was to a basic Pinot Grigio what calculus is to adding single-digit numbers. I have always had good wines from that producer.
I spent the last day with my sister in Dallas - which is how I got to the Modern Art Museum. They had a collection of paintings from the last decade of Andy Warhol, i.e. well after the soup cans. I was blown away by a couple of the self portraits but most of all by his version of Michelangelo's Last Supper. Also loved his quote on one of the posters in the gift shop which I have attached above.
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