> He liked to fit a whole onion into the hollowed-out heel of a loaf of French bread and eat it as if it were an apple. He had an extraordinary appetite for onions, the stronger the better, and said that “Good ale, raw onions, and no ladies” was the motto of his saloon.
As a lover of both crusty baguette ends and onions, I can’t wait to try this.
Memorable pieces that are similar in theme to “The Old House at Home” are “The Jollity Building” by A. J. Liebling and “Canal Street” by Ian Frazier. Both are still in print:
For the interested, the book Two And Two has a lot more about the Old House. I used to visit regularly when I lived northeast and there's no place quite like it.
> He liked to fit a whole onion into the hollowed-out heel of a loaf of French bread and eat it as if it were an apple. He had an extraordinary appetite for onions, the stronger the better, and said that “Good ale, raw onions, and no ladies” was the motto of his saloon.
As a lover of both crusty baguette ends and onions, I can’t wait to try this.