We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

We all have hometown appetites.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

If something is truly important to you, you will find the time.

We choose who we will be

Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.