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some trendy restaurant that serves you 1 shrimp and 3 green beans and calls it novelle cuisine, then charges you a hundred dollars no less
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many people i knew in the jerseyburb i lived in were afraid of the city.
i suspect that, having read about nouvelle cuisine in a decade-old magazine, they were concerned about the nouvelle cuisine pushers that you find on every filthy city street corner, just waiting for the suburban innocent to happen by---o sure at first, the nouvelle cuisine is cheap and easy--but that's just a trick the pushers use to get you hooked--next thing you know, you are stripping all the copper out of your own house to sell to scrap dealers in order to pay for these tiny, carefully arranged carrot constructions with big swirls of brown sauce and meticiulously arranged parsley sprigs--soon you don't care about anything else but the next meticulous vegetable arrangement--but you're always just chasing the dragon, the buzz is never the same---before you know it, you need a single shrimp surrounded with curly shavings of lemon grass on a huge white plate just to feel normal---i know, your friends try to tell you, try to warn you, but once you have the jones......then comes the Intervention and the rehab and the detox--it is all terribly dangerous.
better to stay at home.