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The Upstairs Delicatessen 15: My mother had a second sense for when one of us was disappointed, picked-upon [...] or had their ass handed to them on a sports field.at hand someone their ass (v.) under ass, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 15: My mother had a second sense for when one of us was disappointed, picked-upon [...] or had their ass handed to them on a sports field. The Upstairs Delicatessen 30: I’m not gay—alas, I sometimes think, because I’d fit right in with the bears.at bear, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 29: I took a year off to bum around Europe.at bum, v.3
The Upstairs Delicatessen 41: [F]ood people say that whatever they’re talking about—eggs, fish, oil, vanilla, yogurt—is the one thing to never cheap out on.at cheap out, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 102: No disrespect to that inimitable book [i.e. White Trash Cooking, but I was trying to class this combo up.at class up (v.) under class, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 140: Updike was Tyler’s biggest fan but, in a New Yorker review, he dinged Tyler for that line, finding it implausible.at ding, v.1
The Upstairs Delicatessen 43: [Laurie] Colwin’s coffee habits make me shudder, though [...] FFS, Laurie. Well, we all have our kinks.at FFS!, excl.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 196: There was a long stretch, during and after Covid, when people stopped having full-on dinner parties.at full on, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 26: Esquire was the stomping ground of lightly grizzled outsider-insiders like Joy Williams and Richard Ford and Tom McGuane.at stamping ground(s), n.1
The Upstairs Delicatessen 162: We were more worried about being chased away than being gutshot by a Fox News nut.at gut-shot (adj.) under gut, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 163: I spent my morning at the rooftop pool of the Gansevoort [Hotel] [...] the place was packed with tanned hard bodies.at hard body (n.) under hard, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 26: Holly Golightly [...] reads magazines in this kind of quantity and with this type of ferocity when she’s stuck in a hick town.at hick town (n.) under hick, n.1
The Upstairs Delicatessen 117: In part I have my father to thank for this joker in the pack of my genetic burden; he’s a [gout] sufferer too.at joker, n.1
The Upstairs Delicatessen 43: [Laurie] Colwin’s coffee habits make me shudder, though [...] FFS, Laurie. Well, we all have our kinks.at kink, n.3
The Upstairs Delicatessen 66: I worked for both mall bookstores, too: Waldenbooks and B. Dalton. [...] [...] I maxed out my discount.at max out (v.) under max, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 222: I’m still that chunky kid who bicycled home [...] went to make a monster sandwich and then fell on it all.at monster, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 102: When the food section printed my article [about the peanut-butter and pickle sandwich] its editors needled me by running it with a gruesome photograph of the sandwich [squishy white bread, wan pickle slices).at needle, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 178: A close friend was the [New York] Times cocktails columnist [...] I’d follow him all night [...] drinking on the Sulzberger family’s [the NYT’s owners] nickel.at on one’s nickel under nickel, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 32: Robinson Bar, a guest ranch with buildings that dated from the 1870s. It was in nowheresville, a ninety-minute drive from Ketchum on days when the roads weren’t snowed in.at nowhere city (n.) under nowhere, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 116: It takes a certain amount of courage to out oneself as a member of what the novelist Geoff Nicholson has called the ‘gout community’.at out, v.3
The Upstairs Delicatessen 135: I swing into aisle three, the condiments aisle, pulling a U-turn wheelie.at pull, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 126: Neil Klugman, the bright but schlubby narrator of Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus.at schlubby (adj.) under schlub, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 33: When Cree got into graduate school at New York University in 1993, we scrammed to the city together.at scram, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 5: [A]fter school, I’d flip through a skin magazine, Club or Chic or Oui, found in the weeds by the side of the road.at skin mag (n.) under skin, adj.2
The Upstairs Delicatessen 107: The stealth ingredient in a good banh mi, of course, is mayonnaise.at stealth, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 196: I’m more in sync than I used to be with dinner-party despisers.at in synch under synch, n.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 4: I’d toddle into the kitchen. Ten minutes later I’d return with a sandwich.at toddle, v.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 50: The recipes you need to get through even a whacking morning are contained in books you should have anyway.at whacking, adj.
The Upstairs Delicatessen 135: [the vehicle is a shopping-cart] swing into aisle three, the condiments aisle, pulling a U-turn wheelie.at wheelie, n.1
The Upstairs Delicatessen 86: He’d been turned down by a fraternity of which he was a legacy and, wrecked, was dropping out of school .at wrecked, adj.
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