Word: pied
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Among Range's other passions are spending time with his two sons, playing tennis, reading and cooking. And he is quick to add that he cooks a mean pecan pie...
...Southern California restaurants lists the "Top 100 Bangs for the Buck," inaugurated in the New York edition a few months ago. For the first time, formerly unfashionable cafes and family-style restaurants are ranked for value with the same care afforded Spago or Lutece. A wedge of ollalieberry pie at Russell's, an inexpensive Long Beach, Calif., eatery, is deemed "a slice of pure heaven." Not far away is the Shenandoah Cafe, where patrons "love those apple fritters...
Warrant "I hate cherry pie" February 23 at the Channel...
When all of the special interest wrangling is taken together, though, the result is a serious loss of welfare for everyone. As economist Mancur Olson wrote in The Rise and Decline of Nations, "The familiar image of the slicing of the social pie does not really capture the essence of the situation; it is perhaps better to think of wrestlers struggling over the contents of a china shop...
King Charles I of England had several court painters, not all equally lucky. Anthony van Dyck was the luckiest of all. But how could one envy, say, Richard Gibson? He was not only a miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different...