Posted on February 8th, 2009 9:49am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Dining
Leslie Brenner hasn’t started her gig yet as the DMN’s No. 1 foodie, but for my money Rod Dreher could have gotten the job. Read his “review” of Aurora, where he says his meal literally changed his life. Good stuff.
12 comments
While unlike Rod my preferred appetites are more sexual than culinary, I thought his paean to pure animal pleasure was brilliant.
As Rod describes it so evocatively, there is nothing that makes us so human as surrendering ourselves completely to the pure, “giddy” grunting delight of absolute sensate stimulation, whether of the loins or of the taste buds, and immediately thereupon erecting a rationale that elevates such a philosophy of pigs to a theology of the angels (why we cry out the names of deities in the deep clutches of the night). Kudos to Rod for demonstrating his charter membership in and undying allegiance to the fundamental humanity of us all.
@ 2:16 pm on February 8, 2009
Hope the people in charge of their south Dallas project read this. That’s why the south will always lag behind the better parts of Dallas. The people down there are happy to eat the same old store bought crap everyday. Never stir to try something more sublime, more delicious morally transforming food that would make them better people. So nothing will change. You can lead a horse to water yadda yadda.
@ 6:27 pm on February 8, 2009
Why I don’t understand, after seeing the byline on the Kevin Costner band review, is why the writer isn’t the DMN restaurant critic – her name is Joy Tipping.
@ 9:33 pm on February 8, 2009
simmons,
Congratulations on the most sanctimonious FB comment ever written. No small feat!
In the process, you make an excellent point: a place like Aurora is exactly what would transform South Dallas, if only its denizens could find the spiritual grace to deserve it.
@ 9:52 am on February 9, 2009
I take back my comment as, on second reading, I see that you were joking in yours. My excuse is: not enough coffee. So the joke’s on me.
@ 9:59 am on February 9, 2009
I’m not sure if Rod was writing with hyperbole or if someone had slipped a pharmaceutical into his risotto.
@ 11:00 am on February 9, 2009
Heck, we would be happy to just have a store so we could buy that store bought crap.
@ 11:09 am on February 9, 2009
Rod Dreher: ‘Choose Aurora,’ if you’re white.
@ 12:29 pm on February 9, 2009
Brilliant? Hardly. But an improvement over last Sunday’s article, in which he urged readers to take up arms against Demi Moore.
@ 12:44 pm on February 9, 2009
Rod’s a wonderful writer, one of the best. It’s when he starts thinking of himself as a pundit — or even as a !! philosopher — that strange things start floating out of his computer.
@ 6:15 pm on February 9, 2009
Bill Marvel, your irony is exceeded only by that of the master himself, who comments on his blog today at 12:23 PM that
Try the risotto, and be sure to tip the wait staff. He’ll be here all week.
@ 11:57 am on February 10, 2009
A rusty water spigot
A self congratulatory non-entity
Ask for whom the bell doth troll
When if fact the troll is thee.
@ 12:05 pm on February 10, 2009
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
12 comments
While unlike Rod my preferred appetites are more sexual than culinary, I thought his paean to pure animal pleasure was brilliant.
As Rod describes it so evocatively, there is nothing that makes us so human as surrendering ourselves completely to the pure, “giddy” grunting delight of absolute sensate stimulation, whether of the loins or of the taste buds, and immediately thereupon erecting a rationale that elevates such a philosophy of pigs to a theology of the angels (why we cry out the names of deities in the deep clutches of the night). Kudos to Rod for demonstrating his charter membership in and undying allegiance to the fundamental humanity of us all.
Hope the people in charge of their south Dallas project read this. That’s why the south will always lag behind the better parts of Dallas. The people down there are happy to eat the same old store bought crap everyday. Never stir to try something more sublime, more delicious morally transforming food that would make them better people. So nothing will change. You can lead a horse to water yadda yadda.
Why I don’t understand, after seeing the byline on the Kevin Costner band review, is why the writer isn’t the DMN restaurant critic – her name is Joy Tipping.
simmons,
Congratulations on the most sanctimonious FB comment ever written. No small feat!
In the process, you make an excellent point: a place like Aurora is exactly what would transform South Dallas, if only its denizens could find the spiritual grace to deserve it.
I take back my comment as, on second reading, I see that you were joking in yours. My excuse is: not enough coffee. So the joke’s on me.
I’m not sure if Rod was writing with hyperbole or if someone had slipped a pharmaceutical into his risotto.
Heck, we would be happy to just have a store so we could buy that store bought crap.
Rod Dreher: ‘Choose Aurora,’ if you’re white.
Brilliant? Hardly. But an improvement over last Sunday’s article, in which he urged readers to take up arms against Demi Moore.
Rod’s a wonderful writer, one of the best. It’s when he starts thinking of himself as a pundit — or even as a !! philosopher — that strange things start floating out of his computer.
Bill Marvel, your irony is exceeded only by that of the master himself, who comments on his blog today at 12:23 PM that
“I am going to delete any further comments on this thread that offer an opinion as to whether or not homosexuality is morally acceptable. That’s not what this thread is about. It is about free speech.”
Try the risotto, and be sure to tip the wait staff. He’ll be here all week.
A rusty water spigot
A self congratulatory non-entity
Ask for whom the bell doth troll
When if fact the troll is thee.