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...state, in effect, that the networks, with a surplus of eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their...
Lettuce leaves and organic beansprouts are all very well and good, but nothing satiates the appetite like a big, juicy steak. Never one for macrobiotics, vegetarianism, or any other new-fangled food fads, my visit to Boston’s newest steakhouse, Smith & Wollensky, was an exercise in unadulterated hedonism...
...dinner classics” are, of course, dominated by different varieties of steak. I choose a filet au poivre, impressed that the wait-staff don’t even bat an eyelid when I make the oh-so uncouth request that it be cooked “well-done.” It comes out sizzling, succulent and entirely unadorned. Budget to order a few side dishes, and Atkins be damned, because a steak just isn’t a steak without some onion rings or French fries to soak up all the red-meat juices. The house specialty...
...however, is the experience of it all. Polishing off the last of an excellent house red, I am loath to leave my place amongst the men in suits, under the watchful eye of a moose-head, by the warmth of the roaring fire. The prices are steep, but with steak this sweet, a career in investment banking never looked so good...
Thanks to heaven, hell and two creative juniors, Currier House residents have yet another reason to linger over their country fried steak...