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Groups of things that go together are called sets. Two water-melons make up a set. Three pineapples also make up a set. A bunch of green grapes and a bunch of purple grapes make up a set. Even a single melon can be called a set. We can also put tangerines and oranges together to form a single...
1/ A Wilderness of StoneThe scene is so weird and lonely and so incomprehensible in its novelty that one feels that it couldnever have been viewed before.FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH/ THE ROMANCE OF THE COLOR ADO RIVERThere is no landscape on earth that is more astonishing than the Grand Canyon of...
Seeing into flic Futureistoiy is full of astonishing predictions about the shape of things to come. But few have been more precise or disturbing than the prophecy reportedly delivered by Jacques Cazotte at a dinner party in Paris, early in 1788.Some time afterward, one of those present,...
ntroduction
One attribute makes the earth unique among all the satellites of the sun— the abundance of the molecule H2O in its three forms of water, water vapor and ice. Without these commonplace substances we could not exist, yet it is only by accidents of gravity and temperature that we have...
The joys of growing your own c_Why, people sometimes ask me, do you grow your own food? Why go to all the trouble of tilling, planting and weeding a piece of your valuable backyard for vegetables? Aren't all those fruit trees and berrybushes a lot of work? Well, I generally answer such questions...
Introduction
It was the year for color in photography. During 1974, 389 dazzling color prints stole the art show at Photokina, the biennial fair held in Cologne, Germany, and color equipment filled Pho-fokina's feohnological exhibits as well as supply shops around fhe world.
The increased...
That Keyed-up Feeling
For one of the couple at left a ride on a roller coaster is sheer delight —an exhilarating experience to be sought and savored for its own sake. For the other, clearly, it is an experience that almost brings panic. At the end of the ride, the man might very well say,...
The Eternal FamilyHuman history, according to Judeo-Christian theology, began with a family in crisis: the marital discord of Adam and Eve, the sibling rivalry of Cain and Abel. In the mythology of the classical Greeks, the principal crisis was the revolt of Zeus and his brothers against the...
INTRODUCTION-
The'Bountyof Fields and 'Qardens
This is a book of discovery, a guide to the wonderfully rich—yet too frequently neglected—world of vegetable cooltery. Of all foods, the produce of fields and gardens contributes by far the most varied and abundant source of nourishment. In...
The Social OrderIn his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann described the social world of a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, basing his fictional setting on his own observations of an institution in which his wife was a patient. What struck Mann especially was the sanatorium's rigid hierarchy of...
Reality l\visted"I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." This was a drifter named Perry Smith recalling his role in the brutal slaying of a Kansas wheat farmer, Herbert Clutter, and three members of...
Growth: Lifelong Cycle
"The process is not like climbing up a hill and down the other side, but more akin to a Himalayan expedition during which camps must be made at varying altitudes, guides found, the terrain explored, skills acquired, rests taken before moving up to the next level. . . . The...
The Role of KnowledgeAt the turn of the 19th Century, swarms of sightseers converged on Paris to see what was heralded as the oddity of the eraa supposedly wild boy, half-human, half-animal, who had been captured in the woods of Aveyron in southern France. They came, it was said, not just to stare...
INTRODUCTION
To LEARN ABOUT THE MIND we must begin with introspection, or observation of our own experience. We can also collect indirect evidence by studying the behavior of our fellow men and fellow creatures.
Imagine we are strolling together in my garden. From your reactions and your...
Introduction
Latin America is embarked on a great undertaking: to achieve its modernization, not at the cost of freedom, but through a vast expansion of freedom. The popular faith in this purpose is so profound and so pervasive that the late President John F. Kennedy by affirming it as an...
Paradise LosiIhousands of years after it supposedly sank into the cold and gloomy depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the island continent of Atlantis lives on as one of histoiy's most tantalizing puzzles. If indeed such a place existed, Atlantis was a civilization unequaled before or since. Yet its...
Introduction: Welcome to the Qountry %gchens of (prance
The title of tiiis book about the food and cooking of the French provinces has words in it with many connotations. Plainly it is about French cooking. But to nine out of ten of us "French cooking" means an elaborate and expensive way of...
Introduction: Quisine ^uilt on ^H^ure's (Simplest ^oods
11 has been said ttiat the only thing we Scandinavians will own up to, in the name of fellowship among our countries, is the Vikings. True enough, the Vikings are part of the common cultural heritage of Scandinavia, but they are by no means...
'The Melting "Pot ^oMth of the 'border
Jin the nearly 500 years since the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and South America, a series of richly diverse cuisines has developed in the region. In Mexico, where there was a high Indian civilization, modern cooking is still firmly based on its Aztec-Maya...
Introduction: zA^Rskust Quisine ^ased on a Teoplei Qharacterpeople are, in a sense, what they eat. Food therefore could be one of the more revealing indexes to personal and national proclivities, provided one could draw stable conclusions from an index so subject to individual and collective...
INTRODUCTION
One physician superbly qualified to describe his own profession to the average reader is Russel V. Lee, a salty man and a memorable raconteur. In this book Dr. Lee takes the reader on a delightful tour through medical history, from Hippocrates, Galen, Claude Bernard, and the...
^Ti^iscmry ofthe ?outh
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While this book was in preparation I flew to Rome to talk with the author, Eugene Walter. I called on him at his apartment on the Corso Vit-torio Emanuele, and we spent some hours going over our plans for the book. Then he took me out on the terrace to show me his...
Introduction oo soon old and too late smart." That Pennsylvania Dutch saying described the states of the Middle Atlantic region precisely-until recently. Now, however, history and tradition are melding with a new age. The result is that my state, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Maryland as weil,...
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This region of North America actually encompasses a whole succession of Northwest frontiers, old and new, ranging all the way from Wisconsin to Alaska. Each older frontier, in turn, relinquished its claim to the title as pioneers probed farther and farther beyond...
fl new era of combat
On August 27, 1939, just four days before the outbreak of World War II, a slender, unconventional research airplane designated the Heinkel 178 took off from Marienhe Airfield in Germany to make the first successful flight of a turbojet aircraft. The event, although hardly...
Jtearning theJoys of Wine, the Pleasures of spirits
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X he wine lover need not know and usually does not care that a peeled ripe peach, pricked 99 times with a fork, revolves slowly in a bubbling glass of cold champagne. Nor does it matter to him that this is a delectable summer drink called...
^e Qorner of the Qontinent Where American Qooking ^egan
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J. he map outlines the territory of this book: from well-tailored Connecticut all the way up to rough-cut Newfoundland and Labrador.
Columbus never got within 1,200 miles of here, and as a thoroughly Mediterranean man, he probably would...
Tassage to India's (cooking
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began my writing career when I was 19, at Wellesley College, with a book called Home to India. I was feeling far from '' Home, "and knew I would be returning after I graduated, but somehow it seemed necessary to me at that time to put down on paper something of...
introduction: 'That luscious fmisiana larder
There is a saying in New Orleans: "He who tastes of Mississippi water, he'll be back someday." Meaning: He who has ever savored crawfish bisque (or shrimp jambalaya or redfish courtbouilion), he'll be back the first chance God gives him. One way to...
The Collective ActAmericans instinctively think of their country as young, an inexperienced member of an ancient community of established nations. Somehow, its poUtical institutions still appear greeneven though, in the 178 years since the U.S. Constitution was estabhshed, France has seen two...
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The Misfit
Van Gogh drew these sketches of himself in Paris when he was 34, seven years after beginning his career as an artist. Such drawings were part of his learning process; in probing "to develop the best and most serious side" of art, by which he meant portraiture, he drew and painted...
mvu FOR JURVIVflLw wariety is the very If essence of animal life. The world is full of flying, crawling, and burrowing creatures. Feathered, furred, and naked, fat and lean, huge and tiny, animals exhibit every shape and behavior. Birds fly, but some can only walk or swim. Fish swim, but some...
Introduction
Photography is a fascinatingly diverse, ever-changing, self-renewing phenomenon. During every year since it was invented in the 1820s there have been advances in technology and, almost as frequently, changes in esthetic attitudes and styles. Photographers never cease to find new...
INTRODUCTION
Most people would agree that the Baron Pierre de Coubertin had an excellent idea when, at the turn of the century, he proposed a revival of the Olympics. To be sure, the Games have become more of a testing-ground of national prestige and accomplishments than the Baron envisioned;...
Saucisson en CrouteSAUSAGE BAKED IN PASTRY CRUSTTo serve 4 to 6IV2- to 2-pound uncooked plain or garlic pork sausage, about 12 inches long and 2 inches in diameter, fresh or smoked (French,Italian or Polish) WaterPâte brise'e (page 4 ) 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water Dijon-style prepared...
New England Clam ChowderTo serve 6 to 8V4 pound salt pork, cut into Vs-inch dice1cup finely chopped onion3cups cold water4cups potatoes, cut into V4-inch dice2dozen shucked hard-shelled clams with their juice, coarsely chopped,or two 8-ounce cans chopped clams. (about 2 cups) 2 cups heavy or light...
The Gift of Lan^ua^e
Dr. Samuel Johnson's wife, an old story goes, once burst into a room to find the great writer, usually a most faithful husband, kissing the upstairs maid.
"Mr. Johnson," his wife exclaimed, "I'm surprised!"
"No, Madam," said Johnson, "I am surprised. You are...
^"Warming Quisine ^Rogted in ^Rural Simplicity
-British cooking is not noted for saucing and subtleties. It depends on the excellence of the raw materials, the rhythm of the seasonal crops and a simple style of preparation that permits the flavors of the food to come through. Fish from the...
Introduction Mr. Brian Moore does a needed service in this book about Canada. He writes with sure knowledge and sympathetic understanding of our northern neighbour, and the pictures interlaced with the text capture the broacl sweep of Canada, its beauty and its loneliness. For most of us in the...