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...really enjoyed Florence Cadigan's letter [June 20] regarding my eggless, butterless, milkless cake. I didn't know that my refusal to divulge my recipe would cause such a flap. I have received phone calls from all over the country and have freely given my recipe. Actually I have no objections whatever to giving it to anyone-I merely said that in a fit of pique...
...does not pay the cafe's outrageous bills for the impassive waiters, the richly aromatic coffee or the proximity to Bergdorf's and Saks, or even for the Bavarian chocolate cake or the fresh strawberries sinking into whipped cream castles in the middle of February. The fee is for the privilege of engaging in one of America's favorite sports: gazing at the idle rich. Americans are notorious people watchers, and every afternoon between 3:30 and 4:00, the Fifth Avenue window shopper swarm into the Palm Court, trying to casually blend in with the Fifth Avenue shoppers, surreptitiously...
...dissent from the decision of the majority was angry, even bitter. Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark 1973 decision, assailed the ruling as "disingenuous and alarming, almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.'" Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women...
...that Reader Senterfitt [May 30] won't divulge her Depression Era recipe for "an eggless, milkless, butterless cake." We had it and called it "Cheap Cake" during W.W.I and I'm pleased to send the recipe along...
...nobody asks the previous generations what they know about King Tut -or anything else. Nobody asks me, "What do you know about a Depression recipe (which I am not about to divulge to anyone) for an eggless, butterless, milkless cake?" Who knows what problems might be solved if the older generations were consulted...