The Fricassée of Words is a stew of musings on food-inspired expressions, words and word play. Sit a while and savor today's food-inspired expression. As Easy as Pie Mark Twain is the most cited source when the expression “As easy as pie” is considered. If you’ve read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), you’ve certainly… Continue reading Fricassee of Words – As Easy as Pie
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Looking Back at 5 Favorites
The 158 Main Blog is now 375 articles thick. It would seem that even at the pace of a single article per week, we’d run out of steam, or ideas, but that is far from the truth. This is a bottomless stew. Thank you so much for reading us. Keeping this project alive is a… Continue reading Looking Back at 5 Favorites
200 Years A-Feasting
While American men and women are busy rounding up the ingredients for their Holiday menu and chopping and mincing and baking and wrapping and planning who will sit where and how to accommodate special tastes, and oscillating between the pure joy of it all and fleeting moments of doubt… we decided to nibble on a… Continue reading 200 Years A-Feasting
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