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The Beanery coffeehouse in Ashland closes abruptly ... Our View: Free tuition could fly if 'fifth-year' plans reined in ... Cedar Links developers drop commercial area ... The Beanery coffeehouse in Ashland closes abruptly ... Our View: Free tuition could fly if 'fifth-year' plans reined in ... Page H. Onorato: Saturday brought treat for supper By Page H. Onorato More Content Now MailTribune.com By Page H. Onorato More Content Now Posted May. 20, 2015 @ 8:36 am Updated May 20, 2015 at 8:37 AM By Page H. Onorato More Content Now Posted May. 20, 2015 @ 8:36 am Updated May 20, 2015 at 8:37 AM » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> “I like my eggs over easy and my coffee black; I like my steaks thick and juicy or my money back,” went an old song back in the day. I’m with Joe or Ozzie or whoever was singing it about the thick and juicy part. I also want my steak black and red, cooked over glowing coals (not gas jets) and served sizzling hot. After all, with beef prices over the moon, it better be good. “We used to have steak for supper every Saturday night,” my cousin reminisced, “with salad and a baked potato and garlic bread. It was so yummy, and I never got tired of it.” “Sounds good to me,” I said, recalling the steak my mother fixed for us. “She dotted a big, thick sirloin with butter and cooked it under the broiler of our old gas stove. The best part was after dinner when we girls and our dad were allowed to sop up the steak juice out of the platter with store-bought white bread.” We both remembered what a treat it was to be invited to Saturday night dinner at Nonie’s house, where each person at the table, even little girls, was served a whole T-bone of their very own, accompanied by homemade French fries and corn on the cob. Plus, we children were allowed to wash all this down with chocolate milk or a Coke, both no-nos at the dinner table at my house. Steak is the proverbial all-American Saturday night entrée, but somehow it just doesn’t taste as good as it used to. A few years back the government started poking its nose into the beef industry with restrictions and mandates and all of a sudden, our favorite dinner table treat lost its charm. Oh, I know, we shouldn’t be eating red meat anyway, and we all want our animal friends to be treated with compassion. But every now and then, most of us get a hankering for a juicy tender hunk of beef. After all, mankind has been consuming grilled meat for over 500,000 years, ever since Ooga-Oop tripped and dropped his raw woolly mammoth shank into the fire. “You big clumsy oaf,” Mrs. Oop no doubt scolded. “Now you’ve gone and ruined a perfectly good piece of meat.” As time went by, preparing beef for the dinner plate became more challenging, with tasty recipes evolving and cooking methods becoming more sophisticated. The English prepared their joints with Yorkshire pudding or made things like beef and kidney pies; the French invented steak au daube, fillet mignon and chateaubriand. Italians rolled flank steak around spinach to make braciole, while in Turkey the beys and their begums were dining on shish kabob. In Victorian days, beef came into its prime, with restaurants everywhere featuring broiled, grilled and roasted versions with various sauces. One such, in New York City, was Delmonico’s, whose name became synonymous with a good steak. Its clientele included a host of famous folks: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady with Lillian Russell on his arm, Teddy Roosevelt, Edward VII (Prince of Wales) and Napoleon III, to name a few. Bet they all ordered steak. But the dish really started coming to the table in a big way in the 1950s. With the help of the GI Bill, folks who fought in World War II were able to build homes in housing developments all over the country. With spacious yards, quiet streets with little traffic and congenial young neighbors, suburbia came into its own. Then, George Stevens Jr. invented the Weber grill from a marine buoy and voila, outdoor cooking was born. It was back to the cave man days for the guys, who found it satisfyingly macho to sizzle great hunks of red meat over an open flame. The best cuts of beef, I’m told, are marketed in our largest cities. I recall a steak I had years ago served in a tiny, crowded restaurant in the theater district of New York City. The tables were minute, the waiters surly, and the menus had no prices listed. The steak was without a doubt the best I ever tasted. You probably can’t go wrong if you order an 8-ounce cut of Kobe, the Wagyu beef cattle who are massaged and given a bottle of beer daily, but be sure your wallet contains about 300 bucks to pay for it. You can save if you settle for American Wagyu, with a ribeye running about half the Kobe, but shucks, who wants to settle for second best? Fortunately, my family happens to be very fond of hot dogs. Lexington (N.C.) Dispatch correspondent Page H. Onorato is a retired teacher. By Page H. Onorato More Content Now MailTribune.com By Page H. 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