I take thee, Davy, King of the Wild Frontier
Published 10:15 pm Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Seein’ her duty clear: Officials in Tennessee have demanded that a 90-year-old Florida woman turn over the marriage license application filed by the legendary Davy Crockett that she had appraised on PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow.” She claims her uncle saved the document when it was culled during a courthouse cleaning.
The authenticity of the document was confirmed by a line of text on the license form that notes the applicant “kilt him a bar when he was only three.”
I’ll bite: Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” has a new book out filled with helpful rules for better eating including: “Don’t eat breakfast cereal that changes the color of the milk,” and “It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”
Here’s our rule: Don’t eat anything that packs the olfactory wallop of an entire head of cabbage into a single round sprout.
Sorry, Charlie: A giant bluefin tuna weighing 513 pounds fetched $177,000 at auction at a Tokyo fish market. Two restaurants bought the fish to serve it as sushi.
Here’s another food rule: If you’re going to eat something that costs $345 a pound, it better come with unlimited trips to the soup and salad bar.
