“People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeSaidMorningHellPlayerDinnerMade ItContractsVegetablesMondayFridayOverweightClausesFriday Morning Author:Art Donovan
“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.” ShouldLittlesMadeStillsMotherFatherParentHalfGenerationsExampleMomDadTerribleFeministDinnerCooksSplitsHouseholdChoresMom And DadHousehold Chores Author:Emily Oster
“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.” PeopleMadeWholeUseHomeNightCommunityMoralPracticeGraceWorstTablesDinnerOpeningSundayTexasHouseholdAversionSupperDinner TableSunday NightOpening NightMoral Strength Author:Pauline Kael