She has used her perch on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to grill Wall Street executives and try to derail nominees who don't fit her populist philosophies.
About the same time, charcoal production was enjoying a comeback as more and more urban restaurants turned to charcoal for grilling.
Most of Naf Naf Grills outlets are located in urban, suburban settings and college towns in the Northeast and Midwest around New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
WOODLAND This urban hunting lodge has a backyard with a grill, a stage for live music and an American menu that includes grilled oysters, charred chicory salad and seared pike.
In developing countries charcoal is still widely used by urban and rural people as a smokeless domestic cooking and grilling fuel with a high heating value.
At Splendid, and countless other such delis and bodegas in New York, the sizzle of the grill and the call of the orders is part of the urban soundtrack, a mysterious shorthand that defines a subculture.
But Macaroni Grill now veers sharply away from using chefs, instead featuring a group of urban professionals who eat magnificently prepared food and look fabulous.
It was as if Los Angeles were a chronic disease, instead of a temperate urban stretch nestled cozily between the Pacific Ocean and breathtaking mountains, where people own outdoor grills, swimming pools and trees bursting with free citrus fruit.
"I believe for urban areas to redevelop, they have to compete with the suburbs," he said, "compete with the barbecue grill and the patch of grass in the backyard, and the sense of being safe and secure".
As urban cores grow dense, trendy postage-stamp backyards offer dashes of green but barely have room to accommodate grills.
