The Sunday Supplement: #13

Recommendations of opera for non-opera lovers, a spoon to build a meal on, and butter for guests

A very good butter

Living in France for two years, I loved how champagne was available for sale at gas stations. I loved that I could buy bottles of cremant in a Burgundy hardware store, next to the hunting jackets. And how grocery stores, from basic to fancy, were always a wonderland of dairy, and I’m not even talking about cheese: vast sections of yogu…