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garish _glob_ steak story this morning ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdshydur@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 2 09:06:22 1994
From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 09:05:07 EST
suggests `vengeance' factor in local subconscious,
if stats "reported" by lame _glob_ "staff writer"
based on restaurateurs' delight at interpretation
of life (as they apparently define it): `Some
speculate that after years of diet terrorism,
Americans' love affair with self-deprivation seems
to be on the wane, and small, occasional indulgences
are "in." We're not talking just steak either.
Many of the old-fashioned, 1950's steakhouse
accouterments are back too, including martinis,
after-dinner cigards, big wines, port, cognac -
the tools for what Grill 23 & Bar's general
manager, Timothy J. Lynch, calls `the celebration
of life." In keeping with this, other formerly
forbidden foods are also back, including bacon,
super-premium ice creams, big burgers and
salty snack foods.'
(sub-title: diners are rediscovering a taste for
red meat. sub-topics: an american treat, health-
bulletin rebellion? updating steak's image)
(yawning, i decide, live, and let live. the
generation "enjoying" this food fare re-"discovery"
will simply take itself out (old mil term) earlier.
i only feel for hapless young kids of these families.
(then, laughing, i fall back to sleep, and dream of
north cambridge where for two years local folks
have been trying un-successfully to get help from
city hall, inspectional services, public health
officials and soon the courts (note i include the
latter source of potential resolution in the wrong
tense, but in politicised cambridge i'm safe making
the prediction) to cause the owners of a well-known
restaurant to cease exhausting smoke out the back
wall of the kitchen where they "cook" meat, and
lots of it, and at amazing temperatures and under
all the wrong conditions).
- r
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