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Over the weekend harvested all the basil and ground it up real good in a suribachi with pine nuts, garlic, walnuts, salt, olive oil and parmesan cheese, then put some of the result on top of some freshly cooked handmade fettucine and at the first taste discovered further undeniable proof (if such proof were needed) that we are here for a reason, that there is a god, and that she is great. To what higher harmonies can one aspire? Here was manifest the love that went into the making of the tongue and the flavors, here was the reach of the universe in the light of the eye that beholds; here was the history of taste, here the full spectrum of life, rolled on the tongue in the savor of the deepest mantra of all: "mmmm-mm!!!"