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America's culinary taste is going through its neo-neolithic phase: burned flesh is more popular than ever. The apron-and-tong brigade snapped up 15.4 million outdoor grills in 2000, up 32% from 1997, according to Barbecue Industry Association figures. And while most were gas fired, sales of wood chips and chunks are up almost 50% too. About 75% of American households own a barbecue, and more than half of them are used all year. The best-selling cookbook in America at the moment is How to Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after...
...could be at the cost of confirming that "being a Senator is more important than being a sister" [PUBLIC EYE, March 5]. I have four great brothers. But if one of them were the freeloading ass that Hughie Rodham appears to be, I'd have cut the big-sister apron strings long ago. Too bad Hillary didn't take a firmer stand while her brother was staying at the White House. Perhaps if she had limited Hughie's access to the President, she wouldn't be scrambling now. MAUREEN KINNEY Coopersburg...
...financing the beginning of her new life with a controversial $8 million book deal. Bill Clinton will soon bring in even more. His dream isn't DreamWorks, as rumored, but to save the Third World--to be Jimmy Carter, except for more money and without the carpenter's apron. A Washington lawyer will broker a book deal, and he may also talk to agents in Manhattan eager to package this most mediagenic figure into a brand: big-ticket speeches taped to become one-hour specials; missions to Africa turned into PBS series, to do for the starving masses...
...This was her pride and joy," Harry says of his wife, Christmas decorations all around as he stands behind the counter in his white apron. And so it was, but there was a price for the success of Je's. The same price we all pay when, in balancing a work life with a home life, work too often wins. "If you got a break for a minute on a Sunday, you'd look out and see all these families together," says Jason, 29, who came after Harry Jr., 30, and before Chad, 24. "It was hard to deal with...
...then a nice, chipper waitress wearing a red apron leans over the table. "Would you like rice with your Crispy Chicken...