It looks effortless; but the reality is, it's fiendishly hard and anything can go wrong at any moment.
Everyone knew that it required a process of salting, boiling, rubbing, drying, roasting, and glazing so fiendishly complex that Confucius himself would have balked and ordered a takeway.
The difference really comes in the marinades, which range from the wonderfully simple – Rosemary Brissenden's garlic, ginger and light soy sauce version in South East Asian Food – to the fiendishly complex: Vongerichten's involves 11 ingredients, David Thompson's Thai Street Food and Saveur magazine10 apiece, almost all of which require toasting or chopping and grinding before use.
Denim might appear the most humble and democratic of fabrics, but jeans are fiendishly difficult to get right, as Simon Cowell so helpfully (and regularly) demonstrates.
But you need to do more to beat Britain's fiendishly complex fares system.
Cross-border corporate taxation is fiendishly complex, the lobbying around it furious.
Nor should it shock anybody when politicians cave in to such opposition and shy away from economic reform, even when they are persuaded of its merits.In its third annual "Going for Growth" report, published on February 13th, the OECD does its best to explain why reform meets resistance (a relatively simple question) and how opposition might be overcome (a fiendishly difficult one).
Even if you think this is a good thing, it will be fiendishly difficult to administer.
The authors' fiendishly complex algorithm finds the largest possible number of acceptable patient-donor matches so its outcome mimics perfectly efficient barter.
More important, it could also take hundreds of thousands of votes from the mainstream parties, making the outcome fiendishly unpredictable.In this section The people's army Enjoy it while it lasts The oracle of Holyrood Garage music Dominating the field Pride and prejudice Quality, not quantity Ed's toast ReprintsNone of the mainstreamers fared well in the recently concluded polls.
That is a problem politicians tend to ignore, because it is fiendishly hard to solve.
