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...British tourists whose feet and palates are weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped...
...want good grub and want more...
Born to poor Irish immigrants at a Mormon wagon stop in Nebraska, Allie Sullivan was a pert 17, working as a waitress, when tall, red-mustached Virgil Earp shambled into a Council Bluffs cafe for grub one day in 1864. "Virge was the only man I ever loved or got married to," recalls Allie. "For any woman one good man's plenty and one poor one's too many...
Oranges & Oatmeal. The scene, recalling the world of Oscar Wilde, The Yellow Book and Gissing's New Grub Street, is set in London's "grey and grisly filth and fog," where the lamps seem fueled by sewer gas, and Nicholas Crabbe alone shines by the unflickering integrity of his own malice. Crabbe, "as still and alert as his eponym," making his sidelong way through the bitter brine and marine fauna of a demented imagination, is a memorable creature...
With the big-brand companies moving in, fancy foods are expected to crack into the resistance area where they now must grub for sales-the South, the Midwest (except Chicago) and small towns all over. Virtually all fancy-food sales are confined to big cities; 60% come within a 300-mile radius of Manhattan. But they are spreading fast. In the past few years, the number of U.S. specialty-food stores has doubled to 6,000, and there are another 6,000 gourmet corners in groceries, drug and department stores, supermarkets, etc. It is in the supermarkets that the greatest...