FAST & EASY FOR HOLIDAY EXHAUSTION

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FAST & EASY FOR HOLIDAY EXHAUSTION

“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police,” but even faster is a bottle of champagne and your own fast and easy food.

Ham and Champagne

There is nothing easier than opening a bottle of champagne (if it isn’t, there is always YouTube) and serving sliced Spanish ham that you buy ready to be plated. And if not Spanish then some Italian Culatello from Parma. And both are my favorite accompaniments to champagne.

When to drink it is answered by Lily Bollinger. Elizabeth Law de Lauriston Bourbers, known as “Lily,” had married Jacques Bollinger and taken over the ma…