The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.