“… A suitcase full of money and a gun.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “Can you repeat that?”
Last May, I was at the Davenport Grand hotel in downtown Spokane, Washington, where local wineries and food purveyors were being showcased at an industry lunch. A chargrilled tomahawk rib eye from Owens Farms, a ranch breeding premium Piedmontese cattle, landed on the table as glasses splashed with L’Ecole No. 41, a Bordeaux-style wine sourced from Columbia Valley’s Estate Seven Hills Vineyard, clattered in a toast…