Word: oystering
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...seacoasts. Americans are blessed with a biblical abundance of seafood; some 200 varieties pass through Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. They range from the eel (Anguilla rostrata), much prized by Mediterranean diners, to squid, abalone, Boston scrod, the sadly underrated pike and San Francisco Dungeness crab. American oysters-notably Lynnhavens, Bluepoints, Chincoteagues and the Pacific Olympias-are as delicious and nutritious as any that Roman emperors had shipped from England packed in snow. (Louis XI ordered his advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched...
...status quo the way the oyster uses sand, as the irritant that produces pearls of wisdom," suggests Pogrebin. Ask your children how a play might have been different if the leading character had been of the opposite sex. Ask why some school recreation programs still offer dancing only to girls and camping only to boys. Or why some PTAs still schedule meetings at hours when working parents cannot attend...
...biggest bay is intended for special exhibits and, fittingly enough for the opening, it will be devoted to the work of the greatest of all U.S. glassmakers, Louis Comfort Tiffany. Specifically, it will celebrate 16 stained-glass windows that Tiffany treasured and installed in his lavish house in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The house burned to the ground in 1957, but somehow these windows survived and were bought by Hugh McKean, then president of Rollins College, and his wife Jeanette, a longtime Tiffany collector. With the windows, the McKeans set up a gallery near their home in Winter Park, Fla. Only...
Perhaps it was subliminal suggestion rather than accident that made gold so dominant a color in a 4-ft.-by-8-ft. canvas dedicated last week at F.X. McRory's Steak, Chop and Oyster House in Seattle. Accepting a $100,000 commission from the restaurant's owners, Pop Artist LeRoy Neiman had begun the painting a year ago, but then somehow found himself running low on inspiration. McRory's spurred him on by sweetening the terms with 64 oz. of gold at a time when the precious metal was selling for $396 per oz. Suitably reinspired, Neiman...
...when she first went to live in the White House in 1901, and they called her Princess Alice, and she, as she later recalled, "looked upon the world as my oyster." When a visiting notable whose dignity had been offended by Princess Alice's sprightly interruptions asked her father whether he could not control his daughter, Theodore Roosevelt gave him a stern answer. "I can do one of two things," he said. "I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both...