Pour one out for Jimmy Carter

This story was originally published earlier this month by Fingers, an independent newsletter about drinking in America. Readers of The Food Section can score a discounted subscription to Fingers here. 

When Jimmy Carter died with two days to go on 2024, there was considerably less rush to trample on the old man’s grave than has followed the demise of some of his more repellent contemporaries, like also-dead-at-100 Henry Kissinger. By the impossibly low standards of Oval Office, Georgia’s favorite peanut farmer was an almost-decent fellow. (Almost.)