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The writing can be breathless and schmaltzy--it was not necessary to say of the Turkish poached eggs with garlic yogurt from a cookbook written by a couple that "this is a Sunday morning meal from two people whose love for garlic is as intense as it is for each other."
In his inaugural NYT column, Paul Krugman--recently poached from that renowned repository of writing talent,
un æil poché, Lit. a poached eye: a black eye
Among the endangered animals poached for aphrodisiacs are tigers (for their penises--made into a soup) and rhinoceroses (for their horns--made into a powder).