Peanut Butter and Buckley

Two words come to mind when I think of conservative William F. Buckley, who died last week at the age of 82: peanut butter.

He loved the stuff and was a true connoisseur, often saying, "If peanut butter were as expensive as caviar, it would be served at Buckingham Palace teas."

Several tributes to Buckley have mentioned this avid predilection. He himself wrote about it in his column and, memorably, a full-blown New Yorker Magazine essay in which he extolled the virtues of Red Wing peanut butter, a grocery store house brand made upstate in Fredonia, New York.