Word: brisket
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Despite evidence that eating proteins cooked at high temperatures can cause cancer in animals, the popularity of barbecuing has not waned. One reason may be that the grill bill of fare is no longer simply meat with a meat chaser. The Kansas City pitmaster and the Texas brisket king are alive, well and perfecting their marinades and slow-cooking techniques. But the backyard griller can now prepare every part of the meal on his (and it is still mostly his) grill, from breakfast to dessert. "The barbecue moved from the center of the plate to the outside," says cookbook author...
...American palate increasingly accepts and incorporates foreign cuisines, grilling is an early adapter. "The Indonesian satay guy, the Indian tandoori master, the Argentinian asador, the Mexican carnita lady all have a lingua franca with the Texas brisket guy," says Raichlen. But to cook these new dishes, the patio daddios need temperature control, they need more than one method of cooking and they at least think they need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company...
...prayer in my Texas high school. Until my family moved there from Chicago, my religious experiences, with a Jewish father and an Irish-Catholic mother, were brief and infrequent. For two days every autumn, I accompanied my dad to synagogue while my mom stayed home making matzo-ball soup, brisket and kasha. At services I sometimes crept from the auditorium and found a game room, where I played pinball like an uptight burglar, braced against discovery. I had a Bar Mitzvah and recited the Hebrew words of my service from memory without comprehending them, but my Little League game later...