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Maroh 14, 2012 > Over the Edge

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The Greatest
salad on Earth

“The Art of Salad Making”

Very few things are more exciting than making a
phenomenal salad. Anything goes in a salad, and
even for those vegetable-hating souls, there are
plenty of over-meated salads to partake in. They are
almost the perfect meal: super fast, easy to make,
and completely affordable even with the finest of
ingredients.

Here is a recipe for one of the greatest, simplest sal-
ads ever:

PHOTO > WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Ingredients: (all portions subject to desire of final size)

bo A type of leafy green (spinach, arugula, romaine, etc.)
Le Figs! chopped

. Walnuts, chopped

. Goat cheese, chopped and crumbled

Directions: Chop and mix together! Ahh! So easy and so lovely. Try serving it with this
Darcie Smith no-fail specialty dressing:

Ingredients: (again, mix to taste and measure olive oil to how much you think you will

need)
‘ Olive oil
. Balsamic vinegar (white is okay to use too!)
. Salt
. Pepper
| ° Seed style mustard
Lo Honey (just a little scoop!)

Mix all these together really well (add the honey last because it is so gooey and clumpy). If
it does not taste right, it usually means that you need to add more balsamic vinegar. Enjoy!

This salad makes you look like you know what you are doing with your life.
by Darcie Smith

Joyce Carol Oates
Gets Creepy

A Review of The Corn
Maiden and Other Night-
mares

DARCIE SMITH
ARTS EDITOR

American author Joyce Carol Oates has always had a knack for being creepy, and in her
latest The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, she capitalizes on it. The tales are not neces-
sarily horror stories, however, there is something utterly horrific in their nature. It is less about
frightening things that could happen and more about the frightening things that do happen, and
the ordinary people who carry them out.

There are seven stories in the collection, with The Corn Maiden being the first and longest. It
tells the story of a young girl, Marissa, whom a classmate has abducted. The perspective shifts
from the abductor to the teacher falsely accused and set up by the real abductor, and the young
girl’s mother. Marissa was abducted by a disturbed classmate who plans on sacrificing her — a
highly perverse thought for a girl who is no older then thirteen. Marissa is locked in a basement,
drugged and naked while her mother balances on the edge of insanity over her whereabouts.
The teacher is a bit too unconcerned with how he managed to get in the position of guilt.

None of the stories are particularly fast-paced and they often do not read like a traditional
short story. This collection is a bit more of an investment than most.

The remaining stories are shorter and still creepy and strange. A few of the stories share the
theme of false accusations and jealousy, and a few others revolve around the sibling relation-
ship. Oates seems to be channeling a bit of Edgar Allen Poe in these tales and at times the reader
might wonder just where all these ideas come from and how she thinks them up. The more one
wonders where they came from, the creepier it seems.

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