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Thirty-six years old and long forgotten by most, Schourek knows that there are those who will always remember him. Crazy fanatics like myself. He finishes the game 4-for-5, his team wins, and as my teammates smoke post-game cigarettes and leave the field, I sit alone in the dugout and take in the moment...
...finished. Tayyabs?a Pakistani diner in London's gritty Whitechapel district?is that kind of place. So why do hordes of Londoners crowd into the eatery every night of the week? Because Tayyabs dishes up the most sublime?and possibly the cheapest?subcontinental cooking in the Big Smoke. Start with a plate of spicy, sizzling lamb chops (a mouth-watering $7.50 for four) and a succulent seekh kebab, a grilled sausage of marinated lamb and herbs (just $1.30), and you'll soon be weeping?and sweating?with delight. For the main course, match up a fiery karahi curry (a close...
...this time of day," he says, squatting down in front of a rabbit-hole-sized opening in a low embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs in front of the burrow, he digs out a box of matches and sets the kindling alight, producing a thick cloud of white smoke. If the pangolin, a scaly anteater that looks like a cross between an armadillo and an opossum, isn't smoked out of its lair soon, Jema'ah (who like most Indonesians goes by one name) will set off again through the forest, clutching a shopping list of animals that...
...Richard] Holbrooke to listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been given a long leash by U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice. Hill forged an unlikely bond with his rough-edged, chain-smoking Chinese counterpart Wu. Though he doesn't normally smoke, Hill bummed cigarettes from Wu during breaks, and impressed him by producing perfect smoke rings, a skill he'd picked up as a young Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Hill, too, came to admire Wu for his intelligence and his persistence...
...finished. Tayyabs - a Pakistani diner in London's gritty Whitechapel district - is that kind of place. So why do hordes of Londoners crowd into the eatery every night of the week? Because Tayyabs dishes up the most sublime - and possibly the cheapest - subcontinental cooking in the Big Smoke. Start with a plate of spicy, sizzling lamb chops (a mouth-watering $7.50 for four) and a succulent seekh kebab, a grilled sausage of marinated lamb and herbs (just $1.30), and you'll soon be weeping - and sweating - with delight. For the main course, match up a fiery karahi curry (a close...