![]() ![]() It already started with the first posters. I did think, though, that people who have no interest in food or have trouble spelling French words were going to groan. I like that her title sits on top of TOWER. One giggly moment when I wrote in AVEA for the car and got a much different answer to the San Francisco clue. Three cheers for the non-tennis ASHE clue. Turns out I had misspelled RECLAIMED and when I went to fix it, I was too bored with the whole thing to finish it. I tried Lao TZE because I knew SHINZO seemed more Japanese. Isn't he the guy who was born as an old man? Unlike Benjamin Button he never got young again. It gave "flaky" a positive meaning again.Īs for the puzzle, I had Lao TSE too because that is how I've always spelled his name. But I did think that Bouillabaisse was an outlier, and that "petits fours" is plural and I even erred on the side of ignorance by assuming it was "milles feuilles." I remember ordering some once at the Ritz in London at high tea. I am not a cook and know "rien" about cuisine. She is just herself, sharing her secrets, some of which still confound me. ![]() The lack of technical expertise (in the taping, that is) and the total lack of cutesy-wootsey or staged cutthroat antics. It's amazing to revisit these old episodes of Julia Child's show. This has been a sticky week solving the NYT puzzle, but I finished and am dusting off my self esteem.īonjour mes amis and a few BFFs! Speaking of coincidence, I was just watching The French Chef last night on Channel 13 (online version). "Five foot-two, EYES OF BLUE, but oh! what those five feet can do." I see that those lyrics are from 1925 and I'm wondering what she might have done. I love music and know songs from way before my time. Ok, buy me a drink and you can second person me all you want. ![]() Using the second person in expository writing is anathema. ONE'S, sans apostrophe, is a way to avoid the second person "your". Sleeps on a glacier in a wool suit and only has tea and bread for sustenance? Call me an apostate. I have spent many weeks in the Sierra, singular please, and honestly, John MUIR is kind of a gasbag. We get evil DOER as fill on this anniversary? I get it: year = a**hole, but come on! Where's the apostrophe in this whole conversation? Discuss. And another thing, lots of hand wringing and grousing on this blog about the missing tilde. In college, for some odd reason I took French and what with Lab and all, it pretty much killed my GPA. My resident Francophone has yet to solve this, but she likes to spell when asked and I asked and she pretty much nailed HORS D'OEUVRES on demand. Actually salmon in an orange marinade, but, anyway. Quelle coincidence! Tonight, I cooked duck l'orange and then slid into a French menu themed puzzle. from the sea? Or from Prussia, one or the other. Oh, and RECLAIMED was hard for me to see. I also couldn't spell FEUILLE because I thought it had to be plural. Other big trouble spot was down south, where I couldn't get either LATHS or LOW-CUT to fall, and so the SW was something I had to jump into with no help from crosses. I had to leave the corner and then back into it with HORS D'OEUVRES before I could even begin to extricate myself. It's a bad answer because 3rd person present singular verb doesn't work with the clue, but that didn't keep it from feeling right for a few seconds. But not as brutal as what I was about to do next, namely compound the one long error with Another Long Error: faced with H-O- at 3D: Want really bad, I decided to try out HAS TO HAVE. Anyhoo, I had Lao-TSO (ouch x 2) and then dropped in AKIN TO at 1A: Just like. I think it's trying to say that ASHE- is a "lead-in to 'ville'" in North Carolina (also), but that is not, grammatically, what is happening in the clue (unless "North Carolina" is being used adjectivally to modify "lead-in," which would be bonkers). Got ENDO and then eventually guessed ASHE (though that is a bad clue. I could not have opened worse, in the NW. This felt harder than usual, partly because of tricky French spelling, and partly because the parallel longer Downs in the NW and SE made those corners potentially weird. ![]()
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