What is a crazy salad? It is of course the name of Nora Ephron’s 1972 collection of essays about women, which took its title from this line:

“I’m certain that fine women eat a crazy salad with their meat.”
— William Butler Yeats

But in the 1970s, it was also, according to a review of a new book called The Secret History of French Cooking, a “popular concoction of truffle, foie gras and vegetables by Michel Guérard, the creator of “cuisine minceur” — slimming cuisine.” And it’s the title of the painting featured above by the late Toronto artist Vera Fischer.

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So, what’s good?

Welcome to Get Wit Picks, a new monthly collection of gems by and for the paid subscribers of Get Wit Quick. I want to know: What are the supporting enthusiasms of my enthusiastic supporters? What’s been tickling your brain in 2026 to date?

I’m looking for turns of phrase, pearls, clever jokes, tweets, highlights, articles, tidbits, books, movies, nuggets: Anything that’s delivered that satisfying click in the mind.

You can share yours in the comments below, or hit reply to this email and send some along. They can have backstories or simply speak for themselves. I’ll recap the sweetest drops of honey from the hive mind in a followup email. Let me know how to credit you (first name, full name, nickname, alias, etc) and if you’d like me to link back to your online presence in some form.

I’ll go first with some recent gems and the rabbit holes that led me to them…

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