Mama had relatives in St. Louis. Family rumor was they had moved there with the invention of beer.

Hearing the cheering from the birthday party across the Atlantic, we decided to go. France holds celebration for beloved Paris, two thousand years old, Europe's oldest capital after Athens and Rome.

Temptation for most people is symbolized by the apple and the serpent, but for a wide-eyed six-year-old boy living in central France six decades ago, temptation was the apricot.

It's a little patch of heaven—gourmets' heaven, we mean—Bellows' Gourmets' Bazaar, 69 East Fifty-second Street, New York. Here we discovered little delicacies from the Continent not generally found in the States....

A de luxe variation for the Lenten menu is frogs' legs from the frogland of America; these shipped by express the day after the night they are caught. The frogs are packed in kegs, the minimum order five pounds.

Is there any better dessert after a dinner than a red-meated grapefruit broiled with sweet sherry? Or dress the halves with a cherry or a dot of cranberry, or drizzle on honey.

The Hawaiian archipelago is a string of wonderful pearls. The best of all is the island of Oahu, where sits the city of Honolulu above the Kaiwi Channel.

If you like eating beyond sin and calories, the place to go is the group of islands known as the Polynesian group.