RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V2 #316

Lawrence R. (goldensam@sprintmail.com)
Mon, 08 Jun 1998 21:31:31 -0400 Hate to carp (not really), but since I am as interested in cooking as in
murder mysteries, I would like to point out that one does not hard boil
something down, in cooking terms. In cooking one only hard boils an
egg. When one boils (or simmers) something to reduce the volume of
liquid and thus thicken it without adding cornstarch or roux, one does
not "hard boil it". And since "hard-boiled detectives" are indifferent
to violence, I really don't think that there are any female hard-boiled
types. Tough, unsentimental, yes. But "indifferent to violence"? I
think not.

Of course, one might reasonably add, what difference does it make? I
don't think we want to discuss Miss Marple on this list, or even Nero
Wolfe, but I think that anyone who packs a gun (even occasionally) and
gets beat up on a fairly regular basis is fitting fodder for this list.

"Boiling the nonessentials away. For that reason, I always include David

Mamet and Fran Lebowitz. Terse. Stripped down language and lifestyle."
I must admit that I have thought of Mamet and Lebowitz in many ways, but
never as hardboiled..

--
Dick


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