WHO DOES HE THINK READS HIS COLUMN? (via Rick Turley)

Water Babies (JONATHAN REYNOLDS, July 27, 2003, NY Times Magazine)

In the kitchen, Nina sauteed fresh, fat scallops in a little butter, removed them and made a simple but exquisite saffron sauce by adding a little stock, cream and a few pink peppercorns for color. Eystein dipped monkfish chunks into an elemental flour batter for quick sauteeing. I've never subscribed to the marketers' description of monkfish as the ''poor man's lobster'' -- it's like the Chicken Liver Council claiming its product is Gonzo's rib-eye for those who can't afford it. I usually find it combative in texture and only mildly toothsome. If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you'll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark's. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean, opens its Godzilla jaws and waits for poor unsuspecting fishies to swim right into it, not unlike the latest recipients of W's capital-gains cuts. So it has in common with lobster only reprehensibility of character.

It's not as odd to find a gratuitous shot at the President in a mere food column of the Sunday Times Magazine as it is to see a writer attack his own readers. After all, what % of the folks reading such an essay don't have capital gains? Posted by Orrin Judd at August 1, 2003 3:54 PM