"Ha!" says Ann Marie. "Your examples of the division of labor all are boring. Why don't you tell your students about somebody like the fruit detective? Absolutely brilliant New Yorker article. A man who makes his living by tracking down high-quality fruits and persuading restaurants and gourmet stores to buy them."
"Mmmm..." I say. "These white-flesh nectarines are too good to be believed..."
Posted by DeLong at August 22, 2002 08:24 PM | Trackbackfrom "fruit finder" (it was an interesting article, along with the one on "Molto Mario"), my mind "mindlessly" skips to this trip down memory lane (pun intended), which I reformulate as an end of summer quiz
A: "Say can I have some of those purple berries?"
B: "Yes we've been eating them for six or seven weeks now, haven't got sick once!"
A: "Probably keep us both alive..."
whence come that?
Posted by: David on August 23, 2002 07:13 AMDavid - I can hear the song but the name will not come.... [Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young]....
Posted by: on August 23, 2002 09:13 AMWooden ships, on the water, sailing free...
Posted by: Brad DeLong on August 23, 2002 09:25 AM