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Two Nods to Dom
Today we've got a super-duper Di Fara duo for all you fans of Dom and his art. (Slice counts itself among your number.)
Exhibit A is the photo at left here. Reader Jason T., who's also the winner of our sister site's most recent contest, sent this to us after he had won the contest (no quid pro quo, yo): "One of my good friends, Jake, lives in Santa Cruz, California, and loves Dom's pizza so much that he had an artist paint an image of Dom on his surfboard."
Exhibit B is a wonderful anecdote from FOS Norman H. ...
So, I'd heard rumors that Dom had expensive taste when it came to wine. It didn't seem to ring true, in light of how he seems to run his life, and the, um, less-than-extravagant way he runs his business.So I decided to buy him a bottle. I scoped out the neighborhood, trying to figure out which liquor store he would use, and there was one a few doors down. Very young kid behind the counter, but what the hell. I asked if he new Dom, and he said sure. So I told him I wanted to buy a bottle of wine, as it was Dom's birthday, and did he have any idea what Dom usually bought.
The clerk immediately sucked in his breath, paused, then said, "Ooh—depends on your budget."
So I knew at once that the rumor was true. I asked to see what Dom usually picked—one was $84, the other $110. I was smiling, and the guy then said, "Well, he does sometimes go a bit cheaper," and pointed out a $35 French (I know!) red, which I bought.
REFERENCES
Book Report: Everybody Loves Pizza, in which Slice first learned of Dom's nightly bottle of Amarone Valpolicella [Slice Archives]
All Di Fara entries [Slice Archives]