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...never made poached eggs. Which is weird because I love them, and I'm obsessed with breakfast items to the point that I once spent three weeks trying to invent new ones. (For my bold, if ultimately unsuccessful, breakfast brûlée, go to time.com/recipe....
...Europe and Asia they have always sneaked an egg onto dinner stuff--a frisée salad with lardon, spaghetti carbonara, ramen, pizza, bibimbap. Because Spain is having a huge impact on American chefs, eggs are now appearing outside of breakfast menus. "In Spain, if you have eggs with coffee, they'll look at you like you're crazy," says Seamus Mullen, who poaches eggs from his parents' Vermont farm at New York City's Boqueria restaurant. But in Frank Perdue's America, it's only recently that there have been eggs good enough (local, organic, free-range) to add real...
...Christie's December auction of the Givenchy "little black dress" that Hepburn wore as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It sold for more than $900,000, the highest price ever for a movie costume. (Proceeds to the City of Joy charity for poor children in India. "There are tears in my eyes," said Dominic Lapierre, founder of the charity. "I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...
...five-way tie, which you can read about for yourself). But I'm more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right by Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, too. Jonathan Franzen begins straight up the middle, with The Brothers Karamazov, but turns a sharp corner at #9 with The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, and another at #10 with Independent People by Halldor Laxness. The quintessentially American Tom Wolfe starts...