Ha! Well, there's a great power--maybe the great power--in the stories we tell ourselves. Maybe the wine really does do him good.

I think there's a lot in what Andrew Weil says (didn't know he had a cookbook). The combination of "real ingredients" and love is powerful. Would prisoners receiving heartless and hateful portions of organic farm food benefit? Sure. Would children receiving crappy toxic junk food from a loving mother be diminished by the food? Probably. But in both cases, I'd like to believe, the powerful good offsets the bad.