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...Will you stop eating onion, for Heaven's sake?" my roommate shouted...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Compleat Scholar | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...down my onion...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Compleat Scholar | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Brillat-Savarin should have eaten so well. As a table fish, the steelhead offers the best of both its worlds: its flesh has the pink color and high fat content of a saltwater salmon, the delicacy and firmness of a fresh-water trout. Stuffed with onion, lined with bacon strips, drenched in tomato sauce, wrapped in foil and roasted over an open fire, the steelie is enough to make a gourmand out of a gourmet. But it is the sport, not the stomach, that makes a steelhead fisherman. Snorts one oldtimer: "Catching a steelhead for food is like visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: The Great Steel Rush | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...with fresh whipped cream and fresh strawberries can be a meal in itself. Peptic athletes can eat Egg Foo Yumburgers, Fishwiches, and frankfurters packed in cornmeal, and wet it all down with Philippine beer. The Luxembourg, a restaurant the size of a closet, serves all the sausage-loaded country onion soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: The World of Already | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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