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...crudely brilliant Starved (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the drug of choice is food. The show has a Seinfeldian quartet--sarcastic New Yorkers, three guys and a gal--but their meeting place is a toughlove eating-disorder group. (Ironically, though, they also hang at a diner...
...runaway summer favorite, there is a new look, especially at the hands of Lydia Shire, the chef at Seasons, the restaurant in the Bostonian Hotel. Here traditional grilled lobster is garnished with untraditional chive butter and Chinese pot stickers--steamed dumplings filled with lobster, pork and ginger. "The average diner is very much aware of 'new American cuisine,'" says Shire. "It's out of the fad stage and is really the creative cooking of good simple food, using American products and infusing some kinds of classical preparations...
...butter-and-jelly sandwich, all the milk you can drink and half a dozen Toll House cookies. Notes Green: "To be really authentic we even have Marshmallow Fluff for those who want it." Similarly, there is a Southwest-Mexican down-home culinary representation at the slick, glittering Fog City Diner in San Francisco. At America, the 200 choices on the menu represent just about every ethnic and regional style that is currently fashionable. In truth, most dishes at the theatrical America can best be regarded as stage props...
...that Writer Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Goonies) has concocted to show us the Young Sherlock Holmes in adolescence has something of the true canonical spirit. There are casually astounding displays of deductive reasoning, evil plotters recruited from the far corners of empire trying to avenge ancient wrongs. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural) has a tasteful eye for Victorian atmosphere: fog, hansom cabs, the glow of gaslight. But one does not automatically imagine these characters, this period, having much appeal for today's young audience...
HUDS has tried to incorporate student opinion into its dining decisions. This was the first year that students could vote for a festive meal and they selected a ’50s diner theme...