Crustless

1 cup crustless country bread, torn into pieces

This wasn't a new concoction of salt, sugar, and fat whose appeal was well known to these investors. Madison's $18 billion portfolio had contained the largest Burger King franchise in the world, the Ruth's Chris Steak House chain, and a processed food maker called Pierre whose lineup includes a champion of handheld convenience, the Jamwich, a peanut butter and jelly contrivance that comes frozen, crustless, and embedded with four kinds of sugars, from dextrose to corn syrup.

From birth, Christian had an innate sense of flair and ceremony: in elementary school, indifferent to mockery, he would cut our peanut butter and jelly into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags.