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Everybody knows what ragtime is: piano players in striped shirts and sleeve garters sitting under Tiffany lamps and slapping battered upright pianos that sound as if they had been dipped in water and set out in the sun to bake. Grand opera...
...letter home via the local fishermen, who stop by occasionally to deliver supplies and make certain that Jane is all right. In the letter she wrote: "I feel very old and very young. I'm more determined than ever to stay here." She reports she has learned to bake bread and saw and split firewood. For a while, she had human company: a male friend spent ten days on the island to help her build a wooden shack. Now, she is alone again...
...started to bake a victory with three runs in the first two innings, but then the Bosox, gettin'tough when the goin is rough, made the scorekeeper work for his buck with five explosive scores in the third that turned the tide of battle...
...jewel of Volume Two is the recipe for French bread. French people, it should be noted, do not bake their own bread: rather, they truck over to their local boulangerie in the a. m. with a couple of sous and buy it fresh. Mrs. Child and her co-author, Simone Beck, spent two years and 285 pounds of flour while working up a French bread recipe for Americans to use in their own kitchens. It takes seven hours, involves such diverse equipment as a folded bath towel, a razor, a hot brick, and dexterous fingers, but the result...
There are certain psychic risks, of course, to a life led beneath the surface of domestic bliss. In the darkest Amazon, when a poison arrow proves nearly fatal, Margaret finds herself praying, "Paul, my darling, if I make it home to you ... I will learn to bake bread and make chocolate mousse." Here the most committed housewife asleep in her phoenix dreams will recognize that she and Margaret are soul mates. Few crises cannot be better met if the house is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence...