Personally, I want a lunch-counter cheeseburger, good meat with fried onions, weighty, cooked flat, solid to the grip, with a dense, unaerated bun, sweet as a kiss and solid as a high school girls femur. …
July 3, 1996
News & Stories
Alexander Theroux's San Diego hamburger survey
The El Cortez Hotel and the champagne glass
Dear Mr. (Ms., Mrs.?) Alice: Okay smartypants. I’ve got one you'll never figure out. There is a champagne glass in downtown San Diego that is as tall as a building, but it’s not as visible …
July 3, 1996
Geoffrey Wolff on fatherhood and mortality
A few hours before dawn a bedside phone woke my wife and me. My older son Nicholas, nine, was at a lakeside summer camp in Vermont. This was many years ago, but the subsequent conversation …
July 3, 1996