Word: grilling
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...beginning, there was fire. Then somebody tossed a hunk of antelope into the embers, and, lo, there was barbecue. Then a million and a half or so years later, there was the $12,000 Frontgate Deluxe Outdoor Kitchen, with a 48-in. built-in grill, 15,000-BTU dual range-top burner, warming drawer, granite tiles, outlets for an outdoor fridge and barbecue light and the phone number of an on-call barbecue expert, in case you feel you're overdoing the scallops--all shipped to your door with a box of dry, aged steaks from a New York City...
America's culinary taste is going through its neo-neolithic phase: burned flesh is more popular than ever. The apron-and-tong brigade snapped up 15.4 million outdoor grills in 2000, up 32% from 1997, according to Barbecue Industry Association figures. And while most were gas fired, sales of wood chips and chunks are up almost 50% too. About 75% of American households own a barbecue, and more than half of them are used all year. The best-selling cookbook in America at the moment is How to Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after...
While the vast majority of people who will be grilling the burgers and steaks this summer will do so on cookers that cost less than $500, plenty of nesters, having redone their kitchens with commercial-grade equipment, are spending several thousand dollars on this posh patio or that garden accessory. In the '90s, a $3,000 grill was shocking; now manufacturers are seeing how high consumers will go, and the ceiling hasn't yet been reached. "The backyard has become another room in the house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year...
...cannot be that people think food cooked on a $6,000 grill tastes 30 times better than that cooked on one costing $200, any more than people who buy Manolo Blahniks expect to be able to walk 30 times as far as those who wear Keds. The backyard has become part of the home-improvement trend that market researchers call "fluffing the nest." The grill has entered the world of luxury goods, status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha...
...Eating fish from the local "watering hole" Fishing is a great summer activity. Eating fish whose diet consists primarily of waste by-products and sludge is not. Check with your local Sierra Club (okay, or at least the EPA) before you grill that mysterious, three-headed bottom feeder...