denise
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Jan 9 03:48 UTC 2007 |
Here's one from a book in a series that I'm reading; the book is "In This
Mountain". The quote is from a woman who loves to bake [especially cakes].
Words that are in *...* are actually in italics in the book:
It was hard, very hard, when people couldn't-and, in today's world
*wouldn't*-eat cake. When she was coming up, families *lived* from
cake to cake. A cake was a special event, it meant something. Now
a homemade, baked-from-scratch cake meant next to nothing. For one
thing, most young people had never experienced such a thing. All
they'd ever known was bought from a store and tasted like hamster
shavingsd, or had been emptied from a box into a bowl, stirred with
low-fat milk, and shoved into an oven that nearly blew a fuse from
being turned on in the first place. Such a cake could never be
*your* cake, no way, it would be Betty Crocker's or Duncan Hine's
cake, and the difference between yours and theirs was vast and
unforgiveable.
And look how people acted these days at the mere sight of a piece of
cake. *Cake? Get it out of here! I'm on a diet! I don't want it in
the house!*
Worse yet was the inevitable decloration: *I never touch cake!*
Never touch cake. Pathetic! The world was increasingly filled with
such people, not to mention the crowd that ate cake in secret,
stuffing it in their faces when nobody was looking, and claiming
to nourish themselves on a diet of boiled eggs and dry toast. She
knew who they were.
...And take biscuits--biscuits had fallen in disgrace right along
with cake. Would anyone eat a biscuit anymore? No way, not on your
life. Too fattening! Too much cholesterol! All that white flour!
All that shortning! On and on, 'til you could keel over and croak.
She's been born in the wrong century...
Good ol' Esther! A fiesty baker at that. :-)
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denise
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Aug 16 00:37 UTC 2007 |
From a website:
On Stolen Lunches
Brian Hill recalled the time when he worked at a local radio station and
someone would regularly raid the weekend provisions of one of the
anchors. So the next time the weekend anchor made her popular tuna fish
sandwiches, she changed the recipe a little, said Hill, who was an
editor at the station. "There was no tuna," said Hill, who is now
director of public affairs for the Houston Zoo. "It was all Little
Friskies." And like usual, the nicely wrapped cat food salad sandwiches
disappeared, so the anchor wrote up the popular recipe - including her
secret ingredient - and posted it on the station's bulletin board for
all to see. "I always thought that was the most beautiful thing," said
Hill, who said that from that point on, food was safe in the linoleum
lounge. Source:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/4137785.html
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denise
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Sep 10 23:38 UTC 2007 |
Here are a few tea quotes:
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sidney Smith
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and
beauty. ~ Japanese Proverb
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding, "Love
in Several Masques"
Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet
it still sings! ~ Author Unknown
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