Wechsberg’s profile is a relative rarity: compared with the chef, who has inspired piles of confessionals and biographies, the great restaurant host is an underexamined creature.

With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]

Of old, your Fool did make your sage one tremble; but my foolship hath not found it so.

Given the absence of an accepted government that unites Somalis behind it, the question of Somali nationality and identity falls by the wayside.