Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your side-dish fetishes (cornbread), and you'll find the appetizers are quite honestly unnecessary. But as for the taste...when we took our first bite of an enormous brick of a beef burrito bursting with rabbit food filler, the long line at the Border became understandable. The shrimps and mussels prepared in a "Veracruz style" is aesthetically pleasing but is in reality a watered down version of a Manhattan clam chowder with the wrong ingredients. And then there is Rosalita's Whim, a sampler plate of apparently what the chef is in the mood to cook. In one corner...
...admit it. I'm Jewish. I don't go to Hillel; I eat my share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...menu includes several special entrees. The Shrimp Old Town, a Skipjack's special, consists of shrimp, artichokes, roasted peppers and olives tossed with cavatappi pasta...
...Jumbo Seafood Platter is a deep-fried mix of scallops, shrimp, clams, calamari and fish. And Skipjack's features poached, smoked, grilled, broiled or pateed salmon...
Sontag creamily shifts perspective. The hero and his mistress are egoists gone on fame and oblivious to the welfare of the masses. Off the poop deck, Nelson is an unimposing shrimp. Without her billowing satins, Emma the society swan is grossly overstuffed. Most of the action takes place in Naples, where nearby Mount Vesuvius huffs and puffs. It is a natural wonder, but also an unavoidable symbol of molten passion and the republican revolution that erupts in France and spreads south...