In true kosher cooking, meat and dairy should never be combined. Pareve margarine is made up of 100 percent vegetable oil. Dairy margarine has milk as one of the ingredients plus perhaps added vegetable oil. This is why when cooking a meat or dairy meal, if the recipe requires butter or margarine, I substitute it with pareve margarine.

They had put Thierry in some absurd predicaments over the years, but on none of his missions had he been required to sleep in beshitten alleys with beshitten alley allies pretending to be he didn't quite know what.

Over the whole landscape lay a repose and a peace so perfect that no one could have suspected the close proximity of the capital.

Critical of Loti's sexist exploitation of women in his serial performances as an Orientalist writer, Marie Léra (writing under the andronym of 'Marc Hélys') persuaded a couple of friends she visited in Constantinople to join her in masquerading as veiled Turkish women when meeting the novelist