Word: asparagus
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...with allusions and metaphors, so easy to apply Proust to just about anything. Wondering why that delicious cookie tastes so good? Proust has you covered. Sad that your mother doesn't hug you? Proust feels your pain. Struggling to properly describe the texture, taste, color, smell and sound of asparagus? Proust is your man (In Swann's Way, he writes "My greatest pleasure was asparagus, bathed in ultramarine and pink and whose spears, delicately brushed in mauve and azure, fade imperceptibly to the base of the stalk" Bingo...
...month 100-mile diet inspires many locavores to eat more seasonally year-round, feasting on vine-ripened tomatoes in summer and crisp apples in the fall. And they are seeking to expand their movement by relaxing the rules a bit. "I'd rather seduce with a stalk of asparagus than preach denial," says Fisher, who refuses to give up rice or tropical fruit. "I don't deny myself anything that isn't grown in Ohio," she explains. "Humans have traded foodstuffs with each other since Neolithic times." In her corner of Appalachia, she has found tofu made from local soybeans...
...student chimes in, “But I couldn’t tell you which fruit, and I couldn’t tell you which wood.”Selection four elicited the most spirited reactions. It tastes a “bit like asparagus, trash, and other such appetizing things,” one student describes. “And this, folks,” Brown explains, “is a corked glass of wine.”Wine number five, a 2003 red from Sicily, smells “like Christmas,” says Brown...
...statement, not your statement.’”Woodward said that his source had released him to speak with Fitzgerald about their conversation but not to disclose the source’s name publicly. But his assertion about Novak’s source, over roast beef and asparagus at the Institute of Politics, suggests that Woodward knows—or, in journalistic parlance, “has heard”—more than he has previously acknowledged. Still, it is far from clear how deep into the nation’s capital his knowledge extends...
...What we've shown is that we can plant a false belief or memory, and that has consequences in terms of what we choose to eat," says Loftus. She showed similar results in the vegetable section of the food pyramid, giving people a taste for asparagus by conning them into thinking that they liked it as children...