The war on cuisine
My pursuit of the perfect Shawarma has met a significant road block in Kingston. After a successful first experiment in home Shawarma cookery, an attempt at repetition failed miserably. Disheartened at my inability to achieve cullinary greatness in the home, I set out to the Famous King restaurant at the corner of Chatham and Princess. It is the only restaurant dealing in Middle-Eastern cuisine that I have been able to discover in Kingston. Their Shawarma, not without potential, was sub-par. The chicken was dried out from sitting out for too long. the lettuce was brown and withered like an aged man's testicles. I suspect the impotence of these ingrediants was due to a lack of dependable clientele. As I left Famous King's into a cloudy afternoon, I hung my head in misery. Has George Bush's war on terror and Iraq extended into the kitchen? I rue the day that our culture wages war against delicious food.