The New Yorker, 2005-09-05, b

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"Gone Fishing" / Mark Singer

__ "It’s also called a tigerfish. Amazing-looking. It makes you imagine that it could walk. It has no scales, and its skin is colored like a tiger’s. It’s never been imported to the United States before... The minute I saw it, I thought of Dave.”
__ They could see that Pasternack was crazy about fish yet otherwise demonstrably sane,

"Two Cooks" / Adam Gopnik

• "It's a very tricky kind of openness. You can't actually see inside. It's the Mt. Fuji principle borrowed from Japanese prints."
• "Spleen! Spleen is a very fine, perfectly framed organ. In fact, your spleen swells when you're in love!"
• "You always need a little 'Nyeh!' on the plate. Pickled walnuts do the same thing for ox heart."
• The practice can create a situation as intensely delicate as a Roman imperial adoption.
  
• "Of course, we have always had many beautiful vegetables here in France, as they do in American," Madame B. says, in the classic style in which mannerly French people search for polite consensus while still speaking the truth.
  
• Cooking is both an expression of the essence of the ingredient and an attempt to turn it into something else; it's both melodic and harmonic. The old French cooking was all harmony... the new cooking... is almost purely melodic: the unadorned perfect thing, singing the song of itself.
  
• One is intensely aware of the thing on the plate, and intensely aware of the mind of the chef that gets it there.
  

"Renaissance Pears" / John Seabrook

__ When a woman married, she often carried seeds from her family's farm with her, in order to prepare her mother's recipes, which were based on the particular varieties of fruit in her home valley.
__ (near Florence...) where most of the roadside signs were in Chinese, because so many of the workers were from China.
__ he has the hopeful expression that very old men get in their eyes.

"Study of Two Pears" by Wallace Stevens, Jacopo Ligozzi, Giovanna Garzoni, Bartolomeo Bimbi, more

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