When you’re totally snooping on somebody’s shopping list, there’s no other word for it. You’re not being “curious” — you’re just being straight-up nosy. But I couldn’t help it. Left to my own devices for a minute while I was at my favorite local cocktail lounge in Louisville reporting on their new cocktail menu, I spied a scrap of paper. There among the scrawled lines noting limes, sugar cubes, mint, and rosemary was an item that made me furrow my brow: cheap rice. Not just rice. Cheap rice.
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