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...eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with dizzying regularity. Mostly written by Italians, they are generally excellent; for instance, Sicilian-descended Carlo Middione's new Pasta! Cooking It, Loving It (Irena Chalmers Cookbooks). Accessories for making pasta proliferate: drying machines, ravioli crimpers, cutting wheels, rolling pins, tomato presses, electric cheese graters and dies to make dozens of special shapes like creste di galli (cockscombs) and capelli di preti (small priests' hats...
...effort. A great gasp goes up. They had, indeed, forgotten to breathe. Still glowing, they head for a juice break. Deprivation seems to produce a high level of camaraderie; many people can spend half an hour eagerly discussing the best way to enjoy drinking one-quarter cup of tomato juice...
...excellence and quality. It is human nature to imagine that our present reality is squalid, diminished, an ignominious comedown from better days when household appliances lasted and workers worked, and manners were exquisite and marriages endured, and wars were just, and honor mattered, and you could buy a decent tomato. The lament for vanished standards is an old art form: besieged gentility cringes, indignant and vulnerable, full of memories, before a present that behaves like Stanley Kowalski: crude, loud, upstart and stupid as a fist...
Different companies use different processing methods, many of them established before salt was thought to be potentially dangerous. Amazing differences from brand to brand of the same kind of product often result. A 6-oz. can of Del Monte tomato paste has a mere 112 mg of sodium; Hunt's has 610. A Kellogg blueberry waffle has 260 mg, while the same size serving of Aunt Jemima hits 352 mg. Canned fruit is salty when it is peeled with lye. Because peas are sorted in brine for canning, a tablespoonful of canned peas has as much sodium...
...related thought every 17 seconds; there are 17 steps from the landing to the door in Sherlock Holmes' house at 221b (13 x 17b) Baker Street; Harvard's College Board code is 3434 (17 times 202); and the world record for sitting in a tub of tomato ketchup is 17 hours...