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...Yawkey was alive." With a touch of vinegar, people used to joke that the first rule for managing the Red Sox was to get along with Yastrzemski, Owner Tom Yawkey's prized possession. "He was the most fantastic and kindest individual I've ever known," Yaz says. "As much as Mr. Yawkey wanted to win, he also cared about you personally. He knew the game and loved it. No owners will ever be like that again. He was all baseball...
When I make a salad dressing of oil and vinegar, I now generally use a malt vinegar rather than red wine vinegar because it is "sweeter" to the taste. Sometimes I add more than a dash of dry white vermouth. The exact recipe is ½ teaspoon of egg yolk put in a bowl with 1 tablespoon each of mustard and malt vinegar, plus a generous grinding of black pepper and, perhaps, a bit of finely minced garlic. I beat the mixture with a wire whisk while gradually adding 3 tablespoons of good olive oil. Last come 3 tablespoons...
Americans have historically (with a touch of of overstatement) regarded themselves as the world's master exaggerators: spinners of all tall tales, an abundantly fabulous people, full of Whitman and vinegar. But this is probably mere cultural narcissism. Other people have spent many centuries perfecting their techniques of overstatment. The French for all their Cartesian precision have a strangely unstable hyperbolic side; a casual acquaintance who cannot make it to lunch one day will tell you he is "desolate" because of it. Such linguistic inflation can leave people with their vocabularies depleted when hard times come; what is that...
Despite the familiar French gibe that Britain is a country with 60 religions and only two sauces, Garmey names several that are unique and pleasant. One of them, made of meat stock, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and mustard, is called, appropriately...
...officer was struck in the face with a solution believed to be Mace, a form of tear gas, and vinegar. Although he had not regained his sight Sunday, doctors said the blindness was not expected to be permanent. Other police officers sustained scratches and minor injuries in scuffles with protesters, and one airline employee received 23 stitches in the leg when struck with a broken bottle...