Another time, he taught me to load a boule of country bread with the guts of an over-ripe tomato, a stream of olive oil and a thick slice of potato omelet to make the world's best vegetarian sandwich.
The combination of higher volumes of domestic oil and gas being pumped and the loosest monetary policy in history should make mid-stream master limited partnerships one of the safest bets for 2013.
Both Nabucco West and the Trans-Adriatic Pipleine are predicated on exactly the same oil indexed price points at the competing Russian South Stream pipeline.