Rereading Elizabeth David's classic 1959 essay, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine:Although there are those who maintain that wine and egg dishes don't go together I must say I do regard a glass or two of wine as not, obviously, essential but at least as an enormous enhancement of the enjoyment of a well-cooked omelette.
We are not in any case considering the great occasion menu but the almost primitive and elemental meal evoked by the words: Let's just have an omelette and a glass of wine.
One of the main points about the enjoyment of food and wine seems to me to lie in having what you want when you want it and in the particular combination you fancy.
