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Old Jul 6, 2009, 2:51 am
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The appetizers were served on a plate divided into 5
compartments, the dividers in the shape of a V with an
o circumscribed in it.

The fish terrine was pretty decent, but there was almost
as much chopped pickled carrot (same color, cheaper) as
char in the terrine. The pickled cucumber slices were
dead sweet.

Two little slices of lightly cured veal tenderloin done
medium, pretty nice; kohlrabi in mayonnaise isn't my idea
of a good time, but it was pretty good.

The asparagus was a mixture of green, not so green, and
not green at all, pickled, mixed with little tomato dice.
Decent.

The green salad had all the fashionable greens and was a
little bitter; the herb dressing (dill and parsley mostly)
helped a bit. Best were the seeds - pepita and sunflower -
but one had to apply these oneself, and the spoon and fork
were hard to maneuver in the little odd-shaped compartment
that they came in.

I asked for and got the chicken, a quarter breast, with
skin, done crisp outside and still moist inside, quite
decent. It came atop a mishmosh of barley risotto and
creamed cucumber, which mixture was okay.

I like woodruff, and a mousse made out of it was a fine
thing. Very delicate almost vanillary flavor. I detected
no lime.

My IFE was much better this time, and I thrilled to the
Emerson's high-energy but very eccentric version of the
Janacek quartets, Pletnev doing the Prokofiev 3rd concerto,
a dazzling performance of the Korngold violin concerto by
some German I hadn't heard of, and stuff like that. Bad
thing: there doesn't seem to be a way of listening to music
and watching the Airshow at the same time. Airshow comes
with its own soundtrack, which consists of the Lufthansa
corporate song and other nonmusical things.

Tried the total horizontal trick that SZG had taught me -
the front button seemed to be disconnected, though, so that
although the seat went flat, the leg rest part just sort of
flopped over. I tried three sleep positions: the "ergonomic"
one, the tilted flat one, and the flat one with my legs in
the tilted flat position. None was ideal, and I found myself
wishing for a lie-flat UA C seat - or even one of the old C
seats, which I slept in very well. I did get between 3 and
4 hours, though.

An hour before landing came the snack. I chose Focus Sensors
- three cute little dishes such as you would expect in a
29-course tasting dinner: two tiny slices of very gamy
deer ham topped with a compote of figs and some crushed
walnuts (an ugly artless presentation, though). It was
pretty good, though the schinken was extremely well hung and
perhaps not to everyone's taste. An ounce of tiny crayfish
in an herb vinaigrette tasted fresh but underseasoned. A
cute little tart somewhat smaller than my thumb completed
the meal; alongside it was a marzipan sabayon that made the
dish and possibly the meal.

Champagne Jacquart Brut Mosaique was kind of dull, though
piquantly bitter on the palate. Not much fruit, and what
there was was stone.

2006 Canonico Salento Negroamaro, Cantine due Palme - this
was annoyingly, cloyingly sweet with flavors of prune,
raisin, and fig. It went okay with the food but not so okay
as the Ch. Liversan, which I replaced it with.

2007 Donaugarten Gruner Veltliner Federspiel, Domaine
Wachau - I didn't care for this the first time, as it
was kind of soapy and strange, but the FA opened a new
bottle for me, and some nice fruit and spiciness came
out. Went well with the crayfish salad and sort of okay
with the schinken.

There was also a Cognac from Frapin I think, which was
okay and oaky and kayoed me.

I thought we'd get in early, because we were on line for the
My Old Apartment approach about 20 minutes early, but when
we got to my waypoint we were still about 10000 feet and way
too high to land; we went just to the east of Logan, halfway
to Providence, and then back north using the approach I
usually see on Shuttle flights.

Not much line at Immigration; a few easy questions and (this
happens half the time) a pointed reminder that my passport
is on its last legs, and I was out of there.

My bag with its priority tag was #54 coming out (what else
is there to do when waiting?). To give them credit, most
of the first 40 had priority tags as well.
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