Civet of hare in the south China seas! 'Gosh, Gertrude, let's go have some civet of hare, it's really cold out there.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

They finally decided she was a witch.

Imagine her surrounded at a table for eight by Australian cattlemen off for a jolly in Singapore! I don't want to say she was intolerant but she was. The simple life was the right life.

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.