Tweet of the Day (Comic John Lyon, on Important Work E-Mails)

“Is there a way I can filter out all work emails except the ones telling me there are donuts or cake in the office?”—Comic John Lyon, tweet of Feb. 2, 2016

Quote of the Day (Alistair Cooke, on Thanksgiving and Cranberry Sauce)

“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.”— British journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke (1908-2004), Talk About America: Selection of Broadcast Letters from America (1968)

Quote of the Day (Calvin Trillin, on Leftovers)

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” — Attributed to New Yorker /The Nation journalist-foodie-humorist Calvin Trillin

(Photo of Calvin Trillin taken at a discussion at Dartmouth College, February 2011.)