Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde
Virginia is for Oyster Lovers
“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.” Thus, Shakespeare gave us a new idiom in the Merry Wives of Windsor repeated ever since, and Oscar Wilde wielded it with customary wit: “The world was my … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, Nature
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Oscar Wilde, oyster, Shakespeare, VIMS, York River
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Sweet and Sickly
Everything in moderation, including moderation. That’s Wilde … but did he really mean everything, including sugar, or was Oscar teasing us? What would he say since we consume immoderate amounts of the sweet stuff? And does it matter anyway? Some … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged Ancel Keys, Atkins diet, Gary Taubes, John Yudkin, low carb diet, Michael Pollan, Oscar Wilde, Sugar industry, William Banting
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 