quince – Orangette https://orangette.net Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:07:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 On esoteric fruit https://orangette.net/2016/01/quince/ https://orangette.net/2016/01/quince/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:42:05 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=8993 I first tasted quince the first time I had dinner with my first editor, an exceedingly kind, thoughtful woman of whom I nonetheless was terrified, because she was very New York Publishing World, and because she was my first editor. She had let me choose the restaurant, which only ratcheted up the stakes. I’m surprised that I don’t remember what I wore, because I surely would have labored over the decision with a degree of care most commonly seen among people handling live explosives. The evening went better than I had expected: she told a funny story about her cat and gracefully ignored my elaborate, enthusiastic mispronunciation of the white wine she’d ordered. And when we arrived at dessert, she opened the menu…

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