Sold!
Barton Seaver sells Lynne Rossetto Kasper on canned sardines.
Robert Walser: “a sleeping sardine”
“Is such a thing laughable? By no means.”
Robert Walser: comestibles, ephemeralities, liverwurst
“Again I am reminded of the most vivid ephemeralities, and what is alive is dearer to me than the immortal.”
Horehound on my trail
I come to sing (between coughs) the praises of Claeys Horehound Candies.
Domestic comedy
Oatmeal season.
The Oysterette man
“When the N. B. C. let me go,” he told me, “I didn’t know what to think. I thought I had a job for life. But what are you gonna do?”
Sardine surprise
Portola Sardines in Star Trek.
Proust revisions
Toast, biscotto, then the madeleine.
Sluggo sardines
Lunchtime in the comics.
Sardines and sardines
I have always thought of sardines as a poor-people’s food. But now I understand that there were sardines and there were sardines.
Domestic comedy
The Age of Asparagus.
Garlic, wild-style
Elaine writes about wild garlic.
Big fish, little fish
A 1977 advertisement for sardines.
Asti’s
A New York restaurant with opera.
Cole’s Portuguese sardines
Sardinhas espectaculares.
Recently updated
Purée Mongole? Apocryphal.
Recently updated
Purée Mongole, now with a photograph.
Purée Mongole
The soup that (supposedly) gave the Mongol pencil its name.
The age of spinach
Baby, teen.
More adventures in sardines
With jalapeños. Lord have mercy. Other exclamations, too.
Some like it hot
One poem, two faucets (hot and cold), three “everyday Americans” (as we are now known), three smartly dressed sophisticates, five recipes. An old liverwurst ad.
Sardines and capellini
Pasta, skinless and boneless sardines, olive oil, garlic, parsley, and red-pepper flakes.
Another sardinista
The Crow writes about sardines.
Gill Sans
A spokesgill-man for the sardine industry.
“Sardines in instant cans”
What will they think of next?
Sardine moose
Field & Stream sardine ad.
Another Cento
Only the finest lines from the poets of il dolce stil novo — Guinizelli, Cavalcanti, Dante — go into Cento Tomato Puree.
The frightening truth that they don’t want you to know about sardines
Yes, sardines are addictive.
Vietnamese egg cream
“Sweet drink made from egg yolk, sweetened condensed milk & club soda served over ice.”
Satan’s seafood
Underwood sardines.