We had Thanksgiving dinner, as we often do, with an old friend of ours who taught biochemistry when The Other Doctor Mitchell and I were in college, and later became TODM’s post-doc boss. Academically speaking, Eileen is my aunt, as she and my graduate boss were both Mildred Cohn’s students. It’s a testament to Mildred’s talent and mentoring that her scientific descendents can be found in so many different places. (I did some NMR work for her while I was in grad school and she was an emeritus; I also taught her how to use a Macintosh computer.)
This time, Eileen hosted since her daughter was going to be back from New Jersey. Liz made the appetizer, The Other Doctor Mitchell made dessert, and I selected the beverages. Recalling that Eileen appreciated a cocktail on her last visit to our house, I decided to pack a bottle of nice bourbon to go with dessert, which was a deep dish apple pie. How deep? Very deep (to recall a favorite phrase of another chem prof).
Eileen took the occasion to get out a tiny little cordial glass for her bourbon, while I went for my usual small glass with one ice cube. It was a perfect choice: the sour mash aroma slicing the sweet/tart of the pie. You hardly needed to drink any, just pick up the glass and savor. I wouldn’t recommend it with pie for breakfast though.
Breakfast or nightcap, these puzzles will go well with your pie.
Kevin Wald composed a Thanksgiving cryptic. I got through the grid in a flash, but the theme answer was really tough.
Hex have a laddergram cryptic in the Wall Street Journal, their regular straight cryptic in the National Post, and an acrostic in the Times.
The Globe and Mail cryptic is a hard one this week: I've barely scratched the surface. The Stickler was tough too.
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