St. Helena Star : Living 5-2-02:
Where is that damned beet?” is what I was wondering. I had just pricked my right index finger while trying to scramble an egg inside its shell. And as Timothy Samuelson, the world’s eminent collector of Ronco and Popeil Brothers gadgets (and, less significantly in this context, a curator of architecture and design at the Chicago Historical Society) had explained only five minutes earlier, every good pitchman keeps a few beets around for emergencies. If you cut yourself, you can hide the blood by getting a little beet juice flowing.
My wound was not the only problem, though. Smashing a second egg on the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler — a remarkable, if virtually useless, device that employs a small, rotating needle to puncture the shell and mix the high-cholesterol contents — I feared I had broken the machine. Okay, so it’s not exactly like snapping off one of the ears of Michelangelo’s David. But this was the first night of a new exhibition at Copia, and decommissioning one of the centerpieces seemed like bad form.
Where is that damned beet?” is what I was wondering. I had just pricked my right index finger while trying to scramble an egg inside its shell. And as Timothy Samuelson, the world’s eminent collector of Ronco and Popeil Brothers gadgets (and, less significantly in this context, a curator of architecture and design at the Chicago Historical Society) had explained only five minutes earlier, every good pitchman keeps a few beets around for emergencies. If you cut yourself, you can hide the blood by getting a little beet juice flowing.
My wound was not the only problem, though. Smashing a second egg on the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler — a remarkable, if virtually useless, device that employs a small, rotating needle to puncture the shell and mix the high-cholesterol contents — I feared I had broken the machine. Okay, so it’s not exactly like snapping off one of the ears of Michelangelo’s David. But this was the first night of a new exhibition at Copia, and decommissioning one of the centerpieces seemed like bad form.
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