Bon Appetit Poetry: Toast

For Jessica Anderson and her obsession with toast…

Part of a new series in which I translate text from recent issues of Bon Appetit into small, self-important poems.

I.

Avoid supermarket breads
with an overly crumbly crust
or too many
gaping holes.

II.

Grilling gives your bread
that steak-like combination
of a charred exterior and a soft
interior.

(June 2011, page 90)

(Source: vrai-lean-uh)

Too funny, especially with campaigns in full swing!

Al Smith - Make Your Wet Dreams Come True Proponents of the nationwide prohibition against the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol were called “drys,” while opponents, like 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith, were called “wets.”

Too funny, especially with campaigns in full swing!

Al Smith - Make Your Wet Dreams Come True

Proponents of the nationwide prohibition against the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol were called “drys,” while opponents, like 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith, were called “wets.”

(via retrocampaigns)

"It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts."

— John Wooden