Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ...ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, you...r eye wanders a bit over the entrées, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things à la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even... more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanity the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-poi...nt pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,... Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That night ended the day when history was written in Abilene. August 14, 1865 was the date. That was the end of the first drive on... the Chisolm Trail. It was just the first of thousands of such drives bringing beef to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »