[Alas Babylon!]

Dunno... Italians keep it until they eat it all. THAT usually doesn’t take more than a few weeks!

Seriously, about a year. Just be sure no parts are sticking out of the oil, not even a sliver of garlic or a basil leaf. The oil should go rancid before the submerged eggplant goes bad. AND you’ll KNOW that!

[Bernard]

Nothing worth reporting on in the shows I saw today (parts of FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC). It's harder here in the Chicago area because they mostly overlap, and even time their commercial breaks to run together somehow.

More important, what I did not see or hear: Hillary and her "Rope A Mope" media strategy. Two observations about that:

1. By having the emphasis on the rope, the media could avoid having to talk about how thin the crowds were.