[Leica] Cook's Illustrated

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Leo wrote:

> I thought this editorial piece in Cooks Illustrated was a  nice  
> little piece
> of writing and wanted to share it.
>
> http://www.cooksillustrated.com/byissue/default.asp? 
> doctypeid=12&selDate=148
>


Despite the fact that it has nothing to do with food It is nice  
writing indeed. It takes me back to my boyhood in a similar small  
town in Indiana. The town was on one side of a lake and the main  
highway running between South Bend and Indianapolis was on the other.  
During the winter, adventurous motorists would drive directly across  
the frozen ice to reach the highway, saving a gallon or so of  
precious gasoline, which, I recall was priced at 20 cents a gallon.  
This was during the depression and 20 cents was big money. A full  
meal at the town's only diner cost 25 cents. My dad was the assistant  
fire chief of our volunteer fire department and head of the rescue  
squad. Regardless of the calendar, the Spring season commenced when  
the first car broke through the ice and my dad had to dispatch a  
couple of volunteers to retrieve the driver and passengers.

Larry Z