The Great American Steak

Tuesday October 2

Home again, home again, jiggity-jig.
After eight hours' flight across the Atlantic, we were not prepared to do anything very complicated for dinner, which was served at 11:30 PM SST (Standard Stomach Time). The solution was to drop by Kroger's, get an enormous T-bone steak, and grill it. It was accompanied by the Hoe-Down from Aaron Copeland's Rodeo* ("Beef--It's What's for Dinner") and the less wizened of the potatoes left in the bin, steamed and mashed up with butter. There was also a French red wine, but by that time we were so loopy with fatigue we hardly noticed. An interesting cure for jet-lag.

*Which he pronounced RO-de-o, apparently.