Seckel

• “Here is another entry for a different condition called Virchow-Seckel Syndrome.”

  Boing Boing

• “She has never waxed poetic about the blush on a ripe Seckel pear, or the creamy lushness of a ripe avocado.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Turner: Good Vibrations: Food Energy Beyond Calories

• “Black Rock Orchard will have three types of tender pole beans: slender French, yellow and green mixed Italian and purple string beans, plus Seckel and Bartlett pears for two more weeks.”

  The Washington Post: Market Roundup: Nov. 4-Nov.10

• “I wasn't sure whether to file this under watercress or pears, but in the end the interesting-sounding tiny Seckel pears in the Watercress, Pear and Brie Salad created by Susan of Food Blogga really got my attention.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “According to Al Seckel, a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, “the visual system represents or encodes objects primarily in terms of their contours…and the sudden reversal that you perceive may be due to your shift of attention on the shape of the contour.””

  Simon & Schuster: Born to Believe

• “Seckel pears poached with caramel were laced with a passion-fruit sauce that kicked the pears into action.”

  Casual Style, But Highest Caliber: Blue Hill On Par With City's Best

• “Picasso Museum, Barcelona, May 10-June 14, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition by Hélène Seckel, by William Rubin. others”

  The Triumph of Picasso

• “All this does not touch the main fact: our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order, just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts, -- though now and then a seedling apple, like the Northern Spy, or a seedling pear, like the Seckel, springs from a nameless ancestry and grows to be the pride of all the gardens in the land.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860

• “But the connoisseur buys the Seckel in place of it.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

• “Thus far -- mountain-ash: beyond -- Seckel pear;" and if, in October, you will walk in the garden again with me, I will show you among the scarlet berries, bending heavily toward you, the clustered succulence of the”

  Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays

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