Word: gamey
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...They killed borugos, a kind of Amazon rodent that looks like a cross between a squirrel and a rat and is a popular source of jungle protein. They also bagged monkeys, which they would stew for hours before braising over a fire in an attempt to cook away the gamey taste. But the meat was stringy and tough and as they gnawed on the primates' tiny arms and legs, some of the soldiers felt like they were eating their young. Others couldn't keep anything down. Now, drifting in the netherworld between sleep and consciousness, Suárez twisted...
...Chang added that he hopes to have Umami publish stories about culinary artists, such as one chef who crafted an exquisite kangaroo dish for him despite New York City’s endangered species regulations. “Some people say that kangaroo can be a bit gamey. But it was a very good cut,” recalled Chang...
...meat's gamey quality, however, can be as much a turn off as some people's revulsion to the thought of eating Shamu. And freezers in Japanese public schools are stocked with nearly four tons of unsold, mainly minke, whale meat, which the government has bought and provided for school lunches. Eventually, they will be turned into fish sticks or burgers...
...chauffeur’s child who is at risk. Does he pay the ransom?The film is gritty—as New York Times critic A. O. Scott ’88 put it in a review, “It’s full of gamey details and a kind of sleazy anxious sweaty mood.”Mifune’s performance perfectly balances traditional Japanese restraint and righteous anger at the deplorable morality both of his business partners and of the ransomers.I hesitate to spoil more of the film, but suffice it to say that Kurosawa makes...
...Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...