When I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine wrote a play for her senior thesis, a play about, I think, Samuel Coleridge and his sister and another poet. (I'm not looking it up because let's see what I remember from those frighteningly many years ago.) Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were also characters. (This friend is now a successful playwright, so well done there.) There was a lot about writing, and a little about an asthma attack, and also, at one point, Gertrude said to Alice, or Alice said to Gertrude, "Salt makes things taste more like themselves."

I realize now that this was not [...]

Grapes: the foundation of civilization? Possibly. Besides cats, can you think of anything else so prominently featured in 5000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs that to this day remains a 'must-have' in the modern garden? (Seriously, don't answer that.) Whatever, grapes have a lot going for them: as this site about the world's healthiest foods notes, 'the combination of crunchy texture and dry, sweet, tart flavor has made grapes an ever popular between-meal snack as well as a refreshing addition to both fruit and vegetable salads.' Grapes also cure cancer, heart disease and maybe even stop you from aging. In short, even if you eat a lot of grapes, [...]