BRING IT

Dion. Librado Romero/The New York Times

found this tidbit on my phone from “A Wanderer, the Singer Dion Returns to the Bronx”:

More than a half-century after his first hit, he [Dion] thinks back to what his life was like as a child, when his grandfather Tony would wake him every morning to the rhythmic clack of a wooden spoon in a tin cup beating egg yolks, sugar and wine into a frothy yellow concoction known as zabaglione.

“That’s brain food,” Dion said. “That’s one of the reasons my brain is so highly developed. By the time I got to school I was like, ‘Trig? Bring it. Algebra? Bring it.’