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Where food meets fire and gets interrogated, then eaten as a reward for confessing.
means Cooked over direct heat on metal bars, or—in slang—aggressively questioned until you crack.
from From French gril, a cooking grate, from Latin craticula, a little wicker grid; interrogation sense smoked in around the 1800s.
Those marksSear lines are flavor, not just decoration.
Double dutySame word cooks steaks and cooks suspects.
Maillard magicBrowning chemistry, not the fire, makes the taste.