Two posts in two days! Will wonders never cease?
But seriously, folks. I don’t want to say I have a high bar for linking to “Eater”. I think I link to them pretty often, sometimes criticizing something stupid they wrote, sometimes using them as a source for a story.
This time, I have what I think is an actual worthwhile article that I had to link to, for reasons that should become apparent in a moment.
“Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur”.
I had not heard the story about the two people being killed in a flambé accident before now. And I hate to make light of their deaths, but…
Police have launched an investigation into the causes of the fire.
Really.
As I’ve said before, I am a libertarian. But I think I could get behind imposing the same confiscatory tax rates on people who order the wagyu rib eye at Papi Steak as I would on people who buy $5,000 turntables for their 78 RPM records.
And as a reminder of why I had to link this, for those who may have forgotten and those who may be unfamiliar with it: the SDC review of The Veranda, with Lawrence’s meditations on the subject of flambé.