• Here’s a trick you might try at home sometime: pick almost any recipe in the Moosewood. Now add bacon. You will find that the addition of this decidedly unwholesome ingredient makes the food taste much better.

    —Doing It: Books: The New Yorker

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  • When you give politicians a blank check to write blank checks…I picture a bunch of drug addicts sitting around and then you say to the drug addicts, “You know, the way to solve this problem might be to do some drugs!”

    —NPR: Hear: About That Pay Cut