Given the similarities of Ernest Hemingway and Leonard Calabrese as excellent authors of renown, I surmise, totally without scientific evidence of course, that it is their proclivity to haute cuisine and quality Riojas that has been the major determinant of their success. Perhaps there are neurocytokines in certain foods and good wine that preferentially stimulate "success" centers in the frontal cortex.
Buen provecho!
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