Just days after being named acting governor, he stopped by the Italian-American Club for its annual pig roast, where he joined 500 other men to chow down on roasted pork, potatoes and antipasto.
He was saved by the ocean, he said, and he survived on what she provided -- meals of yellowtail, tuna and roasted sea gull washed down with rainwater collected in a makeshift basin of his tattered sail.
The Supper at Emmaus is about the only meal in Caravaggio's paintings that is not entirely fruitarian, for it also includes hefty hunks of bread and a nicely roasted bird, all washed down with wine and water.
RECOMMENDED DISHES: Billy Bi soup, sardines in brown-butter-and-olive vinaigrette, seared scallops and foie gras, rack of lamb with lamb shoulder rillettes, roasted venison loin, upside-down banana tart, lemon gratin.
Follow the hypnotic perfume of star anise and roasted beef bones down to Washington Avenue in South Philly, a thoroughfare that should be renamed Pho Boulevard.
(Kimchi, called "soaked vegetable" in Chinese, is placed on the table with a plate of roasted peanuts when you sit down to eat at a Dongbei restaurant).
Jeanne's whistle sounded like the squeaky chirping of a pipirit gri, the gray kingbirds that flew around the area until boys knocked them down with slingshots, roasted them in firepits, and ate them.
A whole chicken dinner, meant for two, makes for a down-home meal: roasted potatoes with a hint of Dijon, bacony collard greens, and superb chicken so lusciously moist as to make a jus served on the side redundant.
You can use a rack to hold the teetering roast upside down.
The great Weiner roast, washed down by a Spitzer spritzer, is a reminder that, while sex scandals are often entertaining, they are seldom educational.
