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...Blickstead and friends churn down DeWolfe Street in a protective party huddle, they stumble upon what appears to be an all-female cake-batter-wrestling event in the far corner of the Quincy courtyard. Like Odysseus resisting the call of the Sirens, Blickstead valiantly disregards the vixenish squeals of delight and surprisingly alluring scent of cake batter, and presses ahead, leading the group, now 50 or 100 paces behind him, inexorably onward to Mather...
Indeed, a tremendous plate of “New England style” calamari, coated in a cornmeal batter and served over a bed of spinach leaves with diced tomatoes and piquant pepperoncini ($7.95), was a substantial and successful appetizer. The richness of the fried squid contrasted with the sweet taste of the tomatoes and the zip provided by the hot peppers to enliven a dish that can often, when handled less sensitively, become cloyingly repetitive...
...favorites is jianbing, or fried pancake. Crepe batter and an egg are expertly fried on a cast-iron hot plate. Then the pancake is sprinkled with a variety of pickled vegetables, slivered seaweed, hot sauce, hoisin sauce and sesame seeds. Finally, working with callused heat-resistant fingers, the chef wraps the whole steaming concoction around a crispy strip of fried dough. It's heavenly...
...gives me the edge. I go into a ballgame, more times than not, having watched video of me facing a batter 30, 40 or 50 times. Knowing what works and what doesn't gives you a tremendous advantage. I actually started doing it when I found out that Tony Gwynn did it. One day I?m facing Gwynn and I thought, 'This guy knows everything I do, when I do it and how I do it. Who's got the advantage...
Shakir, the next batter, got to first on a catcher’s interference call, and when Mager singled in another run to make the score 6-3, it suddenly appeared as if the Crimson might have a legitimate shot at coming back...