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Many Scottish staples date back to the Vikings, who are believed to have introduced Aberdeen Angus cattle as well as curing and salting techniques-whence such delicacies as kippers, smoked salmon and mutton ham. However, there is a regal and Continental tang to the best of Scottish food, traceable to the nation's French connection, the "Auld Alliance" that began with the marriage of Scotland's King James V to Mary of Guise-Lorraine in 1538. Like a fogbound Catherine de Medicis, she arrived at Holyrood with chefs, recipes, wines, liqueurs, desserts and other Gallic trappings then unknown...
...Ham Jordan: "Born with a silver spoon in his nose...
Instructors in fatigues and mufti are still lecturing on the fine points of treason, gun handling and dandelion cook ery. Off to the side, a group of apple-cheeked, grade-school-age girls in ging ham dresses, children of members of the audience, are sitting on swings, singing chorus after chorus of Jesus Loves...
...incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the two famous divas. "She may be a pig," says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet. But you can't make Sills purse from a sow's leer...
...position, but we can distinguish between the rights of the fetus and the action that a mother might feel morally compelled to take. Consider the following situation: suppose you were to return home one day and find a stranger camped out in your living room and peacefully eating the ham sandwich you saved for dinner. You would be tempted to throw him out in the street. Almost everyone could agree that you had the right to eject...