Word: loin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DINNER Roast pork loin, brown rice with butter, asparagus with butter, salad with dressing...
This year's candidates feasted on prosciutto di parma with fresh figs, asparagus and loin of veal with morilles while the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performed...
Then, with the carcasses still warm, he and his companions kindle a fire, carve choice pieces from an elk loin, and roast them on a willow stick. "We had salt; we were very hungry; and I never ate anything that tasted better." Teddy, the bulliest of the bull elk--armed, articulate, carnivorous--slept out among the stars that night with a conscience gloriously untroubled...
...same is true of the other entree, though the name alone is as much a mouthful as the end product. The grandiose "Rosemary and Black Tea Smoked Lamb Loin with a Spicy Eggplant Salad and a Roast Garlic Vereniki" ($19.50), gives little indication as to what the dish will actually taste like. Smoking the lamb is an unlikely method of preparation, but it works well--especially with the vague resonances of black tea, and the eggplant salad has a surprising tartness and spice which keeps the smoked meat from becoming monotonous...
Sure, he knows there will soon be more than a few people who will start to recognize him around town. (Especially after the world has seen him on the big screen wearing nothing but a loin cloth.) But Ashong definitively resists the label of "movie star," and not just because he's modest...