The Menu: All the food news with Joe McNamee

Welcome to The Menu’s House of Love, a special loveheavy edition of this column.

Once upon a time, each February, The Menu would commence his exhaustive preparations for Valentine’s Day with a rigorous regime of four and a half sit-ups followed by a prolonged scrub in the cast iron tub before the coup de grace, a splash of the Old Spice under, not just one, but both armpits.