The last time I featured cuisine was a month ago with  SPAM, WAGYU MATSUTAKE AND BREAD .  My recent eating pattern featured tailgates ( though I used a table in front of my TV set) , for it began during the World Series, carried me throughout the presidential election period, and included those football/golf games this past weekend.   So with all that, here is what I ate, beginning with an artichoke with three sauces, radicchio, onions, avocado and potato chips, with beer and a glass of a Stanford Cabernet: Tonkatsu, Hirame sashimi, miso soup and a lot of vegetables, with beer and hot sake: Then an Irish whiskey tasting during the World Series watching the Dodgers beat the Devil Rays.  Incidentally, while I thought I had totally lost all the money I invested in my fantasy teams, one actually won $50. On the eve of election day, I gathered an assortment to imbibe through November 3.  In the back is a cognac within a crystal dragon, as I was born in that year...