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...Laprise, Toque! never bores. It's perhaps the best of the market-cuisine restaurants in the city. Less elegant but just as inventive is the newish Au Pied de Cochon (514-281-1114), where iconoclastic chef Martin Picard throws coronary caution to the wind with his heavy and delectable pork, venison, lamb, poultry and fish dishes in seasonal dress. His foie gras-poutine appetizer (pate atop a version of the Quebecois snack of fries, cheese curd and gravy) typifies his highbrow-lowbrow approach...
...medical shows can be pretty goofy, especially when you're a surgeon. Always amusing, to us anyway, is the great drama of the skin incision. This much you should know about real surgery: The skin incision is the easiest part. Human skin cuts about like a pork chop (or a Fruit Roll-Up, if you're a vegetarian); a scalpel is usually no sharper than a good kitchen knife. Knowing where and how deep to cut is also super-basic to the practice of surgery, about like starting the engine is to the practice of driving. The skin is (unless...
...this era of vicious partisanship America's lawmakers have proved there's still one thing Democrats and Republicans can come together to support: pork. After an overwhelming vote in the House on Nov. 6, it was expected that a united Congress would override a veto for the first time in George W. Bush's presidency. The legislation that inspired this unprecedented alliance did not involve children's health or the Iraq war but rather was a bill stuffed with new Army Corps of Engineers water projects...
...investigations had exposed its dysfunctional habits--wasting money, draining wetlands, cooking its books to justify boondoggles--long before its bungling drowned New Orleans. Still, corps projects are a form of currency on Capitol Hill, a way to flex political muscle even if they never get funded. And this latest pork platter approves $4 billion worth of work for the Everglades and coastal Louisiana, so even environmentalists who usually despise the corps joined special-interest porkers in attacking Bush's veto...
...coastal Louisiana. But Congress might not fund the new Everglades projects. And one of the new Louisiana projects would actually destroy more valuable coastal wetlands. Environmentalists should know they'll never fix the Everglades or coastal Louisiana without fixing the corps. But even they enjoy the smell of pork--when it's theirs...