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When Dean H. Joachim Maitre delivered his commencement speech at Boston University's College of Communication in May, he chose as his theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to consider whether a given work is true...
...traumatic stress syndrome. In the old days killers merely stalked and slashed and strangled. Today they flay their victims and stash the rotting, skinless corpses. Or they eat them filleted, with a glass of wine, or live and with the skin still on when there's no time to cook. It's not even the body count that matters anymore. What counts is the number of ways to trash the body: decapitation, dismemberment, impalings and (ranging into the realm of the printed word) eye gougings, power drillings and the application of hungry rodents to some poor victim's innards...
...sought-after appliance is aimed at the serious cook with serious money (list price: as much as $6,800). The most popular model is equipped with six porcelain-coated grates, a grill and two gas ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30 seconds). Going all out, it can simultaneously broil shrimp kabobs for an appetizer, warm the soup, roast the leg of lamb, grill swordfish, steam petits pois, simmer wild rice, saute baby tomatoes, poach pears and flambe crepes suzette...
...menu is simple but nutritious: fillet of trout meuniere, accompanied by steamed red potatoes, glazed beets and stir-fried vegetables. Sixteen students clad in double-breasted white cook's blouses take notes as chef Kathy Shepard begins her lecture at one of eight stoves in the crowded kitchen. "I want to see lots of colors on the plates," she says of the stir-fry. "Put in garlic if you want. That will be your outlet for creativity today." Then she picks up a slab of fish and shows how to ready it for the saute pan. After the demonstration...
...while now, the makers of many vegetable oils have had a nice little gimmick going. On their bottles, in big, easy-to-read letters, are the words "no cholesterol," sometimes printed with a cute drawing of a healthy heart. The implicit message: Cook all the French fries you want in this oil and don't worry about heart disease...