Word: vinegars
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...subtle mingling of rice, olive oil, and the flavor of its grape leaf wrapping. Naturally, the renewned Greek salad can serve as a first course. Its foundation is assorted lettuce, chickory, and escerole, but the taste is in the dressing. To a French base, the Athens adds olives oil, vinegar, and rigone, sprinkles with imported Greek Feta cheese, and tops with a garnishing of tomatoes, anchovies, and Greek black Oliver. The Feta cheese, when served in blocks, tastes like a mild Camambert and is fine as dessert. But crumbled to the consistency of cottage cheese, it becomes a staple ingredient...
...tastes." The ideal of feminine beauty, which the white plague made current, was epitomized by Dumas fils (mourning an ex-mistress) in La Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron before a mirror, saying: "I look pale. I should like to die of a consumption." "Why?" "Because the ladies would...
...worked so well that we may well be seeing-this week in Moscow-a shift in Russian policy which may be of the greatest importance. The Russians may have decided that their aggressive policies have been too risky, and that they have more to gain by honey than by vinegar . . . We must not be deluded by Soviet attempts to re-establish the united front. But I do see a chance of long-run improvement." (A few days before, Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed a similarly optimistic opinion despite the recent setbacks to his hopes marked by the barring...
...other hand, the Moscow meeting to which Stevenson referred produced considerably more vinegar than honey. Samples...
...Korea, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., 40, son of the late General "Vinegar Joe," took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle...