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There is admittedly a certain irony in redefining as luxury items ingredients formerly associated with subsistence eating or animal feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine...
...pizza finally did arrive—after a good three quarters, mind you—but by that time, half of the press box was almost frozen, thanks to the open windows and the steady drizzle that blew into our faces and onto our computers. Why didn’t we close them...
Petersen added that in July, the council reached out to Square businesses, soliciting discounts for students. Discount vouchers for items ranging from pizza to hardware will be available this fall if the council approves the arrangement. Agreements with Square liquor establishments C’est Bon and Doma are currently being sought...
...thing and then do another, you are much less likely to be forgiven than if you do one thing and then say another. Barden, Rucker and Petty use this example: a radio host says on-air that he's joining a fitness organization but then eats pizza for a week and gains five pounds. Hypocrite! Now consider the reverse order: the host eats pizza for a week and then publicly joins a fitness group. "In each case," the psychologists wrote in a 2005 paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, "the statements and behaviors are equally inconsistent...
...Genesis (the Garden of Eden's first lovers were Adam and Ed) to the Ten Commandments ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" had the codicil "unless you in turn are willing to share thine own wife with him") to the Last Supper (where the main course was pizza). But the supreme WWN Biblical expos?e, which I read in 1994, had a headline that read, as I recall, "Second Coming Came and Went!" The story reported that Jesus had returned as He'd promised and taken all the chosen souls back to Heaven with Him. The rest...