But the pecan pie, German chocolate cake and a truly awful blueberry napoleon are of the sweet-and-clumsy school.
While " 'Nutcracker' Nation" is informative and reflects years of worthy intellectual investigation, it is awkward and badly organized, like a pas de deux danced by two clumsy high school kids with no ear for rhythm.
Giles Coren will be another regular contributor, his first column a letter to his three-month-old daughter in which he imagines "how some clumsy public school boy, 15 years from now, is going to try licking yoghurt off your snatch because he saw it in a film".
This film makes every costume piece you've ever watched look like a clumsy middle school play.
The "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" character Dreama is a (clumsy) high school student sent for Sabrina to mentor in witchery.
I'm not the first mid-life mom to discover the love story of a clumsy high school girl and a vampire; my girlfriend Cheryl was the first of my peers to recommend them.
And in addition to its own charcuterie items — a few of which are like earnest but clumsy culinary-school first attempts — it serves bratwurst from Schaller & Weber and Italian sausage from Esposito's, both beloved New York institutions.
Stupid Things definitely celebrates the transition between childhood and adulthood; its delightfully infectious tracks reference such adolescent hallmarks as clumsy middle-school dances ("Gym Looks Nice"), painful unrequited crushes ("Peonies"), and the brash cheerfulness of youth who have no idea where they're going but are determined to enjoy the ride ("Teenage Elegance").
It may be that such people – victims of some clumsy teacher at school – have little imaginative sense of the past and associate history with outings to Cardiff Castle in the rain, the tedious recollections of aged relatives, the mothball corridors of provincial museums.
The responses were indignant, some comparing it to the "slut-shaming" of adult women dressed revealingly or to clumsy advice from schools to replace girls' skirts every year as they grow.
A clumsy player in high school, Pettit turned himself into a graceful 6-foot 9-inch (2.06-metre) athlete, and today he is considered to be the first really agile player of exceptional height in professional basketball.
