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Friday Food Post: The Best Steakhouse Is Your House
Steak is delicious. You should eat it. You just shouldn't eat it at a restaurant.
You call that a steak?
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I have a fearsome task before me today, and that is to persuade you to stop doing something that millions of Americans have been happily embracing since the invention of "dining out." I refer, of course, to ordering steaks at a restaurant.
Before you go looking for your pitchfork, let me note that I am not anti-steak. I love steak. Grilled, broiled, pan-seared, made into succulent sandwiches -- about the only way I don't like steak is boiled. Steak is delicious. You should eat it. You just shouldn't eat it at a restaurant, unless that restaurant is a high-end steakhouse that has devoted itself exclusively to the preparation of prime, dry-aged steaks.