Word: omelete
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...emotional range as a painter: pessimism, anger, every abrasive emotion are caught in some inner filter before they can reach Frankenthaler's canvases and muddy their obstinately sustained lyricism. She keeps up the mood of Apollonian pleasure so well that one may think of Edmund Wilson's satire The Omelet of A. MacLeish, whose hero's well-made tropes "gleamed in the void, and evoked approbation and wonder/ That a poet need not be a madman, or even a bounder...
Ruth Brinker is grandmother incarnate, a balm of memories and sympathies. As she sits at the edge of his messy bed, the young blond man pries the lid off his dinner. An Italian omelet, roast potatoes, broccoli. The cramped hotel room actually smells of home. "Ruth," he says, "I love...
Start scrambling for your omelet pan. Eggs unadulterated with guilt may soon be back on your menu. Once considered a valuable, low-cost source of high- quality protein, eggs became dietary villains because of their high cholesterol. Now that hard-boiled approach to one of nature's most delectable foods may soften...
...shown that frying them sunny-side up, without flipping them over, does not kill all the bacteria; the eggs had to be fried three minutes on each side. Other recipes also need altering, probably to the cook's despair: boiling requires seven minutes to ensure safety, poaching five, and omelets must be cooked until no liquid remains. Restaurateurs may balk at such guidelines. Says John Benson, of Manhattan's Mme. Romaine de Lyon, which offers 500 types of omelet: "I certainly can't make an omelet well done or dry unless it's at the customer's request...
...things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber glass...