The mere mention of baked brie cheese with sliced green apples, for example, conjures both exhilaration for a time when the melty treasure seemed the height of sophistication and the embarrassment of serving what, in retrospect, seems like the maxiskirt of the table.

He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.

1. What ‘Orthorexia Nervosa’ Means: Steven Bratman, MD, MPH, a California physician, coined the term in 1996. It means “fixation on righteous eating.” Since then, many medical professionals have accepted the concept.

The rhombic faces of one-third of the rhombicdodecahedra move outwards, resulting in octakaidecahedra (8), which are equivalent to, but larger than, those of figure 2.6(b).[…]If the square faces of the octakaidecahedra continue to grow, thereby shrinking the rhombohexagonal dodecahedra, a simple cubic unimodular structure survives as shown in figure 2.6(e).