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...perfectly pink in the middle. Its only fault really was the overload of three slices where one would have whet the appetite sufficiently. Maws is good on side-of-the-plate gems. He serves hen of the woods mushrooms and watermelon radishes on the side of the pan-roasted skate wing ($19) and vegetables are spring-like even in late September...
Before serving the main courses, Beuscher offered culinary advice and philosophizing. The immense skate came with a tutorial on how to cut sideways to avoid severing ligaments. Topped with tomato and parsley garnish, the gently flavored fish flaked easily but was definitely upstaged by the meat. The skirt steak ($20), served with potatoes, carrots and a chunk of marrow-filled bone, came with another lesson. While diners used to suck marrow out of the bone, hence the term “sucking the marrow out of life,” these days the bone comes sliced in half...
...we’ve seen Avril skate in her video. Is she really a skater punk or is that a carefully constructed image...
Viewers of high-level skating competitions understand. They have often wondered whether to believe their own eyes or the judges' contrary numbers. Didn't the judges see one team fall down and another skate perfectly? Then why vote for the stumblers over Fred and Ginger? Are the experts knaves or fools...
...answer, at least in Salt Lake City, was that some of them were foolish to think their knavery would go undetected. A day after the pairs final, a French judge admitted she had been pressured to favor the Russians' klutzy turn over the Canadians' sublime skate. The ensuing uproar, which resulted in the awarding of gold medals to both teams, cast a pall on the International Skating Union and the high-strung community of ice divas. But until now, who imagined...