Know Your Onions
August, 1955
Know Your OnionsPlayboy's food & drink editorNothing shows up cowardice like an onion. Most people know the kind of two-fisted gent who's afraid of no man but who won't eat an onion unless he can go incommunicado for at least twenty-four hours. Nothing whatever disturbs this fire eater except a haunting suspicion that his breath doesn't always resemble a bouquet of hot-house carnations.When he sits down in a restaurant, the mere words "onion soup" on the menu turn his calm gastric juic...