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Cranberry Upside-down Cake ("I must stop because I'm making myself hungry...
Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
First is the notion that "soil cannot be stretched," that each acre has a certain production capacity (Vogt calls it "biotic potential") which cannot be boosted without dire peril. This is the same fallacy that expresses itself in the old saying, "There are only so many slices in the cake." Some businessmen say this when they decide that their markets cannot be expanded and, therefore, should be divided among them in quotas set by their cartel. Some labor unions decide that there are only so many jobs to be divided, and therefore oppose labor-saving devices...
...Indianapolis Grocer Albert Galyan, who started his supermarket with little more than two nickels to rub together and ran it up to a $2,500,000 business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...
...expected Sweden to plump immediately for full cooperation. Norwegians and Danes were looking forward to a time when, as one observer put it, Sweden's power could be folded into a West European defense system "carefully, like the beaten white of an egg into a cake mixture...