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A Lesson on How to Wring as Much as Possible Out Of Nothing
I wonder if The New York Times included its recent poll in its sales plan for March.
To add some citrusy spring to your culinary step, take a fresh lemon and zest it! There are multiple ways to zest a lemon, and really, no special tools or instruments are needed to enjoy the gift of Spring in your meal, drink, or on top of a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
You get my point (for proper zesting, you can use a microplane — pictured — a vegetable peeler, a paring knife, a box grater, or a zesting channel knife).
This will be the last article in which I react to the poll released by The New York Times/Siena College on Sunday. You may ask why I keep returning to this topic. Because I am slightly overwhelmed at how much juice the editors at The Times keep squeezing out of this lemon of a poll. As if they discovered “gold in them there hills,” our sensibilities have been assaulted by a slew of daily affronts. With a forced all-hail-Trump-and-Biden-is-a-bumbling-idiot approach allegedly harvested in the bogus data, The Times seems to hope that if it keeps offering interpretations, something edible will be found for all.
Today, The Times has sent a flare to the “Biden superfans.” It says we feel alone in our confusion about…
