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...with the story of how he became a writer without benefit of higher education, literary mentors or even good advice. Instinct made the 20-year-old Pritchett leave the leather trade in London and set off for Paris in 1921. He saw his first pepper mill, ate his first omelet, became an accent snob and-so far as he could afford a fop. In a more gradual way, "the orderliness of the trees, the gravely spaced avenues, rearranged my mind...
...very unfortunate--that's all I want to say. It's very unfortunate indeed. And it's not going to help Harvard Square in the least," noted Mario L. Bonelio, the manager of As You Like It, as he artfully diced cheddar cheese for an omelet...
...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...
...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...