Trivia

If you’re dining out near a coast, a lengthy oyster list on the menu can teach you a little local geography. Oysters are almost always named after coves or bays.

Household hinter: “When you buy fresh spinach, you get more for your money, if you pick up the prebagged kind - fewer stems.”

Paperback books were sold before World War II, true, but it was the war’s paper shortage that forced the publishing business overall to crank out almost everything in softcover bindings, and the big change was highly profitable.