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an alphabet for gourmets
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, W-Z
W is for wanton … and the great difference between the way a man eats and has his lady love eat.
October 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, S-V
S is for sad … and for the mysterious appetite that often surges in us when our hearts seem breaking and our lives too bleakly empty.
September 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, P-R
P is for peas … naturally! … and for a few reasons why the best peas I ever ate in my life were, in truth, the best peas I ever ate in my life.
August 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, M-O
M is for monastic … and for what happens when men become monks—at table, I hasten to add!
July 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, K-L
K is for kosher … and for a few reasons why the dietary laws have been called “one of the best economic regimes ever made public.”
April 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, I-J
I is for innocence … and its strangely rewarding chaos, gastronomically.
March 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, F-H
F is for family … and the depths and heights of gastronomical enjoyment to be found at the family board.
February 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, C-E
C is for cautious … the kind of dinner at which there is an undercurrent of earnest timidity.
January 1949
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An Alphabet for Gourmets, A-B
A is for dining alone … and so am I, if a choice must be made between most people I know and myself.
December 1948
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