After work one has just enough energy to tune into the Food TV network, such a curious phenomenon, cooks as celebrities. All the mystique about frying something in a pan. All hooey. Tyler and Sara and Bobby et.al. rushed and breathless and soooooooo eager to please. Give me a drunken chef anyday, the kind that Manuel in Fawlty Towers had to elude.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Friday, January 23, 2004
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