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...winning-for the longest time. And then we were losing-spectacularly, with such garish determination that it brought to mind... the 1962 Mets. I embraced the ugliness of the slide, the entropy-propelled avalanche of awfulness. Well, maybe I did suffer a little. But it was a cathartic temps perdu suffering. Immaturity restored, I can now spend the autumn spitefully, rooting against the Yankees, awaiting the false promises of spring...
...Many chefs also enjoy concocting endless riffs on basic breakfast foods like bread and eggs. "Bread goes with anything," says Keller, and "egg is the only protein that you use 24 hours a day in a savory and a sweet." That versatility explains why pain perdu - an authentically French version of French toast - makes a regular appearance on the French Laundry menu. But it's never ordinary. Cooked with bone marrow, tomatoes or truffles, it is hard to recognize as a variation on French toast in the first place. Other New York chefs' inspired takes on morning food range from...
...Square is likely to coincide with a special occasion. A fresh citrus salad is served beneath two scoops of fresh, not excessively-sweetened tangerine sorbet and provides a zingy way to cleanse the palate and refresh stuffed patrons. Diners possessing large appetites will enjoy the apple pain perdu, a grown-up version of French toast that is surprisingly light...
Marcel Proust wrote great gossip. His epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...
...Homage to Delacroix. "This American is a great artist, and the only one of whom America can be justly proud," said Camille Pissarro. And Marcel Proust turned part of his name, unpronounceable by the French, into an anagram: he became the painter Elstir in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu...