Word: chickening
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...plethora of grilling gear is only partly a case of consumerism run rampant. Barbecuing is the classic multitasking cuisine. First, there's the sheer spectacle of it: it's cooking as showing off. Grillers with a flair for the dramatic can cook such eye-catching dishes as beer-can chicken (cooked standing upright on two legs with a half-drunk beer shoved into its cavity). Then there's the opportunity to network. Who can resist rallying around the chef while he slaves over the swordfish? As Raichlen says, "Nobody ever comes and gives me a beer and a kiss hello...
Nothing could be more old-fashioned than animating puppets by minutely adjusting their movements one frame at a time, but Nick Park's Chicken Run showed that the painstaking art of stop-motion animation could produce poultry worth laughing with and caring about. If the box office starts raining Cats & Dogs (I can't say for sure; I wasn't shown the film), it will be because the animals display amusingly complex behavior--because the film is, for all its cute tricks, recognizably human...
With an analogy comparing Chinese and Western approaches to a “wild duck and a chicken,” he concluded that no one should expect the two medical cultures to communicate...
...While I won’t go so far as to say I dream of General Wong’s Chicken or the Baked Cod nights, I do miss the cereal variety and made-to-order omelettes. Walking past the dining halls, I dream of the stacks of clean ceramic dishware and endless supply of cups, ice and soda. Then I go back to my kitchen and attempt stir-fry-à-la-Trader...
...having my popcorn chicken may be good for my arteries, and cooking may be good for developing my sense of independence, but being at school without the services our tuition includes provides a new perspective on the Harvard dining debacle. I may have anything I want for dinner, but just because I’m cooking what I desire doesn’t mean it’s any good. So come September, appreciate the already-hot General Wong’s Chicken when you come to the dining hall starving because you’ve had a five-hour...