My Favorite Things Beginning with O and P

O

• Author and/or poet: Ovid
• Book: Can't think of one at the moment.
• Film: Old Acquaintance
• Actor: Peter O'Toole
• Actress: Maureen O'Hara
• Composer: Okay, I guess it's Carl Orff .... but not really.
• Opera: Orfeo
• Food: oatmeal, oatmeal cookies, oatmeal bread

P

• Author and/or poet: Barbara Pym
• Book: Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Film: Persuasion (1995), The Philadelphia Story
• Actor: David Hyde Pierce
• Actress: Joan Plowright, Michelle Pfeiffer
• Composer: Purcell
• Opera: I Puritani
• Food: Pasta, in just about any preparation. I could eat pasta every single day. Potatoes – ditto and ditto. And did you know that when both pasta and potatoes are cold (e. g., pasta salad, potato salad, etc.), their starches do not completely convert to sugar in your body?