The innards

[Thomas]

What I would give for a real lemon ice and not the pumped up version that now floats in New York.

As a child, I used to help an old Italian who lived next door and had an outdoor lemon ice stand. He crushed his own ice, squeezed his own lemons, and added real cane sugar. The lemon ice was so fresh and pure that my friends and I used to play a game to see who could spit the farthest the lemon seeds that were in the ice.

The old man's lemon ice provided my first lesson in acid/sweetness balance, as his wines, though drinkable, were not exactly balanced...