Corner View : Favorite Dish

This week's topic comes from Joyce and is "your favorite dish."

I've posted many recipes already, I don't read celeb gossip magazines, and my friends wouldn't appreciate me spilling their ongoings, but the favorite dish I happen to love is that of etiquette (and sometimes advice) writers. Wait, wait, wait! I'm not a southern debutante who insists on multiple utensils at every meal. I just happen to find the writings of Miss Manners and Prudie very interesting and entertaining. Emily Yoffe is a bit more 2009 regarding the topics she works with, and thus, a lot more direct. With Judith Martin, if you go back to her older stuff, she has been quite open-minded about big picture issues for decades! (My favorite may be from her 1983 book, when asked by a reader, "What do I say when I meet a homosexual 'couple'?" she replied, "How do you do?," "How do you do?"). She's very tongue-in-cheek and many of her responses are for readers to read between the lines. She is also credited with a vast knowledge of cultures and customs, to boot. She once said in an interview,

"You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable."

This, and I love a good, hearty soup or pasta dish! My next post will be the newest recipes we've tried this week.

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jane, ladybug-zen, ian, bonnie, esti, sophie, cele, modsquad,

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