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Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
There is nothing wrong with this story that isn't wrong with a number of major novels-except the way a good deal of it is told, oversimplified and trimmed with parsley. Sabre's enemies and their motives are too wicked, fancy, and convenient to the plot design to remain quite believable. The obstructive wife and husband are more conveniently unlovable than an honest imitation of life would allow, and they are so tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people...
...death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable facts, well garnished with folklore and parsley...
First Try. Joe Curran's game had started weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...
...Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer John Renner summed up Fulton's big day: "Hell, enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium...