Word: souped
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...love of food." A member of the Bread Bakers Guild, Julia Child shared with the public the secrets of great cooking, encouraging us to master the fundamentals and use the best ingredients. We take solace in the fact that Child's last meal was a bowl of French onion soup - which of course includes a toasted baguette slice. We recall fondly her closing line at the end of every show: "Bon appétit." Gina Piccolino, Executive Director Bread Bakers Guild of America North Versailles, Pennsylvania, U.S. A Governor's Secrets I know what I think about New Jersey Governor...
...treasured baby blanket, it is rich with sentiment and associations. Store-bought or homemade, flower print or flour sack, an apron does double duty as protection and decoration. An old apron's faded pattern seems a memory of itself. Its soft, well-washed fabric feels as soothing as soup. But an apron also represents a woman kept in her place. The pert hostess aprons of the 1950s, with their printed poodles and cheery appliques, might seem these days to have tried too hard to put a good face on things. There are some Americans who would just as soon slip...
...Motobu, Okinawa, wakes at 6 a.m., in the house in which he was born, and opens the shutters. "It's a sign to my neighbors," he says, "that I am still alive." He does stretching exercises along with a radio broadcast, then eats breakfast: whole-grain rice and miso soup with vegetables. He puts in two hours of picking weeds in his 1,000-sq.-ft. field, whose crops are goya--a variety of bitter gourd--a reddish-purple sweet potato called imo, and okra. A fellow has to make a living, so Toguchi buys rice and meat with...
...French Justice Ministry announced last week that it registered 298 "anti-Semitic acts" so far this year, compared to 108 for all of 2003. The desecration of three Jewish cemeteries in recent months was followed last week by an arson attack that destroyed a former synagogue serving as a soup kitchen and social center in eastern Paris. President Jacques Chirac and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë expressed outrage over the incidents, but outrage isn't enough for Jewish leaders or their communities. When the few cases of violence or vandalism that are prosecuted reach the courts, they claim, the courts...
...French without being all French about it. And now, when restaurants in New York City, San Francisco and even Las Vegas are as good as those in Paris, she has once again proved the American axiom that brashness trumps snobbery. That fact, even more than my totally awesome onion soup, is what has got me by. --By Joel Stein