Frank Bruni: Flexible Like a Yogi Master
The blogger at The Bruni Digest delights in weekly critiques of NYT food critic Frank Bruni's restaurant reviews. Today, she imagines the scenario that could play out after Bruni said yesterday of chef Laurent Tourondel's BLT Fish restaurant, [BLT Fish] has the flexibility of a yogi master, the balance of a Romanian gymnast":
Literally, the following scenario is now possible:
You: Hey, Laurent, I heard the Times reviewed your restaurant!
LT [filetting a dolphin]: Yes, zey did!
You: Oh yeah? What d they say?
LT: Actually zey said zat ze restaurauhhn is flexible like a yogi master and also balanced like a Romanian gymnast.
You: Literally?
LT: Word for word.
You: Really?
LT: [pause] Yes.
You: Congrat u really?
LT: Yes. Additionally zat we are as if the baby were to be made between Eric Ripert and Tom Hanks.
BLT Fish: Don't Tell Rita!!!! Tom Hanks Has a Bastard Baby... [The Bruni Digest]
Elevator to the Ocean [NYTimes]
