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Soon the main event begins and the arrival of the evening’s first skewer brings as much joy as the birth of a new child. The signature dish is beef sirloin, crisp on the outside, with a rich, chewy center. Most of the meat is at its best when served rare or medium rare, but each skewer can be carved at different points according to how well done the diner prefers their food. Chicken breast wrapped in bacon has a strangely similar taste: each mouthful is crunchy and salty on the outside, while the bacon fat prevents...
...that is not a joke. I know, I know—the thought is repellent. But be brave and your hardiness will not go unrewarded. The Midwest Grill’s chicken hearts are delicious—vaguely reminiscent of grilled calamari. They come around 30 to a skewer. Our eight-man table polished off five skewers over the course of the evening. They are that good...
...surprising that London's hottest musical is a send-up of America's looniest talk show. Of course, its creators clearly love their trash TV, even as they skewer it. The opera skillfully parodies the TV show's demented-circus atmosphere, and star Michael Brandon does a bang-on impression of Springer's smarmy solicitousness ("Chuckie, I sense you're not too happy about Shawntelle's pole-dancing dreams"). Even the backstage scenes ring true, with Springer trotting out knee-jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care...
...writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following comment about a gaggle of pushy pensioners: "[I was] comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead." One reviewer was so outraged by the remark that...
...world. "People accuse me of being a curmudgeon, but everybody should be one! Why don't more people get annoyed at, say, ugly supermarkets? It bothers me that they're not bothered." He may have soft-pedaled the satire in Kenya, but Bryson is looking for fresh subjects to skewer. Japan, he says, may be next. Do you get many angry reactions from people whose home towns you criticize? Surprisingly few. People from Bradford got very upset - there were lots of letters to the local papers. The sad thing is that they acknowledged the truth of what I said, even...