Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case in point revolves around a four-line footnote. It appeared in a Modern Living story (Jan. 5) about a peripatetic, perfectionist omelet maker named Rudolph Stanish. The footnote described his special omelet pan and gave the name of its distributor, Manhattan's Bridge Co. When we began to get an exceptional number of letters and calls from would-be purchasers of the pan, we checked with the company's owner, Fred Bridge...
What is Stanish's secret for the perfect omelet? Simplicity itself, says he. The eggs should be at room temperature, and they should be beaten lightly or the omelet will toughen. Don't allow the butter to brown, use at most just a pinch of salt, and be sure the pan is hot. Cook for precisely 15 seconds, stirring briskly in a circular motion with the side of a fork. Except for dessert omelets, he adds one special ingredient: Tabasco sauce. The later the night and the more the drinking, says Stanish, the more Tabasco...
...rope at six. By the time he tackled Niagara at 36, he was able to go across once on stilts, another time with both feet in a sack, once again with a man on his back. On one occasion he sat down on the rope and devoured an omelet...
...Clearly then," writes Lewis, "Blondin was not a man who would be upset by jeers from the bleachers. After all, he knew a damnsight more about the art of tightrope walking than anybody else in the world." If Blondin could calmly eat an omelet high above Niagara's roar, Lewis asked, "why should Johnson-the smartest political acrobat of the 1960s-allow himself to be upset by his Viet policy critics...
...says Morton Fried, on the order of 95 to 5. During man's nomadic residence on earth, a continuum reaching back 2,000,000 years, he has indiscriminately mingled with his own kind, thoroughly scrambling his genes. It may be possible one day to unscramble the human genetic omelet. Until then, group distinctions decreeing one race's superiority over another must necessarily be made on nonbiological lines. With only a few dissenting votes, the world of anthropology has swung in this direction. "The peoples of the world today," concluded delegates to a world meeting of ethnologists and anthropologists...