When asked whether she would prefer mushrooms or aspargus in her omelet, 19-year old food writer M.F.K Fisher mumbled that she didn't care.
She got schooled by her Uncle Evans during her first-ever train ride.
Evans said she ought to care when offered a choice of any kind of food or drink, lest the "attentions of your host are basically wasted on you."
The exchange is included in the marvelously entertaining book Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried.
Evans added that it may "someday teach you the about the art of seduction, as well as the more important art of knowing yourself."
Fisher got the message: "I either care or I'm a dolt, and dolts should not consort with caring people."
http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-America-Visionary-Businessman-Hospitality/dp/0553804375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301931246&sr=1-1
She got schooled by her Uncle Evans during her first-ever train ride.
Evans said she ought to care when offered a choice of any kind of food or drink, lest the "attentions of your host are basically wasted on you."
The exchange is included in the marvelously entertaining book Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried.
Evans added that it may "someday teach you the about the art of seduction, as well as the more important art of knowing yourself."
Fisher got the message: "I either care or I'm a dolt, and dolts should not consort with caring people."
http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-America-Visionary-Businessman-Hospitality/dp/0553804375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301931246&sr=1-1
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