Giving Good Weight e-bog

"e;You people come into the market-the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun-and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are-people of the city-and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales."e; So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "e;Brigade de Cuisine,"e; a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "e;The Keel of Lake Dickey,"e; in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.