The only drawback of the surf and turf — a tea-smoked lobster tail and a tiny square of Kobe beef — was its $55 price tag.
Markos said something that bears saying often in the hothouse of tea-baggers, Astro-Turf activism, and race-baiting populism that emerged after President Obama was sworn in.
Voters could resolve it, too, by turfing out the Tea Party-backed members, as they did in November when they opted not to re-elect congressman Allen West, a Tea Party favourite who denounced Obama as a Marxist ideologue.
This quirky "oriental food and tea house" is decorated with artificial turf and serves a variety of steamed and fried dumplings with salads, noodle side dishes, and miso soup.
Their incursion slightly suggests a street gang crashing a tea party — the rowdies, accustomed to preëminence on their home turf, a bit daunted by the invincible cool of the host company but irrepressibly cocky.
On turf and around the roots of trees, Mr. Fleisher's crew applies a compost tea made from fish emulsifier, peat, kelp extract and, of course, compost.
The small kitchen area means that patients can have a cup of tea, and the very fact that the unit is parked up on the patient's home turf automatically makes it less threatening.
Helmand was Taliban turf.
