Robert Farrar Capon on peeling an orange:
Peel an orange. Do it lovingly - in perfect quarters like little boats, or in the staggered exfoliations like a flat map of the round world, or in one long spiral, as my grandfather used to do. Nothing is more likely to become garbage than the orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap.