Ihad black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow cheese. I think that was a good selection. Betsy had coffee and a fr...uit salad dish. She could have had anything she wanted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capac...ity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Calico Pie, The little Birds fly... Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang "Tilly-loo!" Till away they flew-- And they never came back to me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kitchens were different then, too--not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different... from a frozen pie thawing. Oilcloth and linoleum and apples in an open bowl and ruffled rubber aprons make a different aromatic mix from Formica and ceramic tile and mangoes in an acrylic fruit ripener and plastic-coated aprons printed with "Who invited all these tacky people?" And the kitchen sounds. I am not sure that today's kitchen is noisier. But the noises are different. Today you get the song of the food processor and the blender, the intermittent hum of the reefer and the freezer, the buzz-slosh-and-grunt of the dishwasher, the violently audible digestive processes of the waste disposal in the sink. Then it was the whir and clatter of the hand-powered eggbeater, the thunk-thunk-thunk of somebody mashing potatoes, or, in green-pea season, the crisp pop of pea pod and the rattle-rattle-rattle of peas into the pan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Joe's Eats You get your fish or chicken on meat platters.... With coleslaw, macaroni, candied sweets, Coffee and apple pie. You go out full. (The end is--isn't it?--all that really matters.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them. (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)... And this song is consider'd a perfect gem, And as to the meaning, it's what you please.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »