Sarah and I had dinner tonight with Mary, spacegrrl and J. and, in her first encore appearance in the Triangle, Xta. At Piedmont, about which I have to say two words: "pork" and "belly" and if that's not enough to get you off your feet and down the street then we really have nothing more to say to each other. I also had a smoked duck appetizer, with mustard, fruit compote and some crostini that was pretty amazing too. Sarah had a butternut squash risotto which was outstanding. Good food times. And overall good times, chatting about food, wine, radio, furniture, cats, dogs, bacon, travel and other bits o' this & that.