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Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's little Mayor, broadcast praise for his wife's "OPA pasta faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...
...them as a cash crop. But when imports of mungs from China were blockaded, owners of chop-suey joints from coast to coast and as far west as Honolulu flashed an S O S. The sprouts of U.S. mungs were needed for Times Square's most popular dish...
...meals in his hotel, two dozen napkins were stacked, by his orders, on his table; with them he wiped every dish and piece of silverware as it came from the kitchen. In his heyday, he lived at the Waldorf-Astoria and had a fabulous reputation as a host. He invariably took his guests to his laboratory and treated them to an electrical display, which included the then startling trick of passing 1,000,000 volts through his body...
There was a light Hyde Park supper of scrambled eggs, his "lucky dish." Then the President sat down to the old game at which he is expert-tabulating election returns. Supper dishes and cloth were whisked away; tally sheets and sharpened pencils were laid on the green felt cover. The big radio, provided by NBC, began to announce returns. Secretary Grace Tully and Mrs. Ruth Rumelt, Steve Early's secretary, moved in & out with flashes from A.P. and U.P. tickers. Around the big-table, individual state scores were kept by the President's intimates: Henry Morgenthau, Admiral Leahy...
...educated political sense guards him against assuming any more sophisticated manner. On his campaign train he joined newsmen at poker almost every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...