Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners of Mount Auburn Street's two coffee house regard each other's establishments with polite airs of reciprocal contempt. Harl Cook of Tulla's commenting on "the place 'down the street," says, "Oh I wouldn't call them competition. They get a different crowd." George Wilson '59, part owner of the Capriccio, suspects Tulla's purchases their coffee from Cahaly...
Tulla does use "chemex" percolators, however, besides the venerable copper arrangement, through which she filters the basic grind for many of her blends. "Salesmen have offered me modern replacements," she notes, "but I wouldn't change it. Tulla herself is a product of European coffee hospitality, and Cook tries to maintain the "civilized tradition" of the European coffee houses...
...cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...
Although both places have a fairly faithful clientele, the presence of the "other shop" keeps each place wary and leads them to keep security measures. Cook says he has not had time to sample the Capriccio's service, but either for purpose of reconnaissance or a busman's holiday, the Capriccio's owners have dropped in to their competitor's for coffee...
...through the canebrakes among four narrators and unnumbered previous Faulkner books; it more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that the Snopes family tree will flourish by association...