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Soup's On. A condensed onion soup was brought out by Campbell Soup Co., the first new Campbell soup in six years. Price...
Proportionately, the lesser the character, the meaner the line, as when the King of the Beggars says to Gringoire, "Good intentions never put an onion in your soup." And showing the effects of spotty scripting, the beggars' hangman, deprived of Gringoire's neck, laments, "It was such a nice neck." Comic relief of this sort seems out of place...
...down a chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive any other man of his generation and be a second Napoleon. Not that he approved entirely of Napoleon. Bonaparte, he used to say, "filled himself full of onion soup and brandy before the battle of Waterloo. That fixed him for keeps...
...Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make onion soup, but hate to peel and slice the onions...
Having impressed your date with a command of Middle Eastern appetizers, allow her admiration no rest. Launch into the entree. The basic meat in these restaurants is lamb, especially when broiled on a skewer with layers of onion, tomato, and green papers. Called Souvlakia at the Athens, Shashlik in Russian restaurants, and Shish-Kabab most everywhere else, the chunks of lamb are sauteed in olive oil and rigone. Before serving, onions are added for pungency. The meat is succulent with natural juice and the combined effect of onions and a pronounced tang of rigone...