It was an extremely simple meal of a pasta followed by a course that included 3 different cheeses with bread to accompany them.

• The meal was enjoyed Sunday night, December 15, and its details have been forgotten more than 2 weeks later, but I remember something about a 9-ounce package of a delicious frozen goat cheese and lemon-filled panzerotto from Buon Italia and a sauce which included several tablespoons of butter, one of olive oil, lemon zest and juice, one small chopped Granada seasoning pepper (yellow, with the flavor of a habanero, but only a fraction of the heat) from Eckerton Hill Farm, and possibly several other elements, in addition to sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, the dish finished with chopped parsley
• the wine was an Italian (the Marche) white, Stefano Antonucci 2017 Pignocco (Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi), from Manley’s Wine & Spirits
• the music was Beethoven, a phenomenal, hugely revealing performance of the Symphony No. 5, Philippe Herreweghe conducting the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, followed, accompanying the second course, by a beautiful recording of his Piano Concerto No. 1, Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, with Mitsuko Uchida