RCP: A revelation in shrimp and grits--from Tennessee!

Actually, today it is my wife that always wants the meat, even when I am planning a veggie dinner. Do women become more carnivorous as they get older.....

In my experience, no. What are you doing to her????

Well...it does get pretty boring sitting around home all the time, so one has to amuse oneself....

We've been taking drives (licensed one of the 'summer' cars) but they closed the local mountains where we used to run up and down, so it gets a bit boring. I've read maybe 40 books in the last couple of months and listened to a lot of vinyl, and she goes on lots of local walks and the weeding is pretty much up to date....and watching the flowers bloom can take up a fair bit of time....

Actually, today it is my wife that always wants the meat, even when I am planning a veggie dinner. Do women become more carnivorous as they get older.....

Sure they do. It takes iron to support the 'stache.

Good story.
I think my favourite is still The Open Window. A lot of good stories from that era - Conan Doyle, Wilde, O Henry, etc.

Deighted to hear that you like Saki. My absolute favorite of his is "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope" but there are so many good ones. As this is a food board I suppose I really must recommend "The Chaplet", too.

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I like about Saki and O. Henry that they have several moods they write in: satiric, sentimental, mysterious. It's a testament to their greatness and also to the short-story form.

Saki is just as good at the macabre as he is at wit and satire. Gabriel-Ernest and Sredni Vashtar, for example.

-Paul W.