In praise of mayonnaise

I called my friend Rick Bragg today to chat.

He teaches writing at the University of Alabama.

But that's just a cover.

It's my firm belief that his full time job is eating and writing about eating.

Rick is a man who thinks that white gravy is a vegetable.

Today Rick told me that he had just turned in a piece about mayonnaise for Gourmet Magazine's website.

Yes! Mayonnaise.
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