Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cobb salad. How is the Cobb salad quite like a Shakespearean sonnet?

Both are inventions to beguile the tongue.

The Cobb has almost 14 ingredients: Boston lettuce, Romaine, watercress, chives, bacon, eggs, Roquefort, chicken or turkey, avocado, Brown Derby's Old French Dressing which includes sufficient ingredients to swell the number to 14.

Both depend upon the eloquence of a line.

Make a Cobb (in honor of Robert Howard Cobb) and re-read Shakespeare's sonnets and contemplate whether William's wife wrote them. No doubt, she did the cooking.

1 comment:

  1. 20th Century Romance

    Love, ok'd, finds a monument, then tries

    a single white cloud
    triangular skies

    so many circles
    yet the sea studies on

    we reach across a room
    and there are blazers
    some beakers

    too many ogres ago
    we fed our tippling mutt
    the absolutes of our time

    one night at martha's vineyard
    he saw her head out

    improbable mammals divine

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