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controlled violence against meat that civilization decided to call dinner.
means Cooking food, especially meat, by exposing it to dry heat in an oven or over a fire — or, figuratively, subjecting someone to a barrage of mocking criticism.
from From the Old French 'rostir,' to roast or burn, which English borrowed in the medieval period. The French itself likely came from a Germanic source — a cousin of the Old High German 'rosten,' to roast — suggesting the word crossed back and forth between cooking cultures. The sense of 'roasting' a person with insults is much younger, an extension of the heat-and-discomfort idea, with the comedic 'roast' as a formal event of affectionate mockery being a 20th-century American invention.
- maillard magic
- browning is hundreds of flavor reactions, not mere cooking
- comedy origin
- roasts trace to 1920s Algonquin Round Table wits
- coffee too
- green beans roast at roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit
- resting matters
- cutting too early lets juices flee the meat
- carryover cook
- roasts keep heating after leaving the oven
burns night — scottish celebration on january 25 where robert burns is honored with roasted haggis, neeps, and tatties
mtv roast of celebrities — comedy central roasts series where comedians roasted flavor flav (2007), charlie sheen (2011), and others live on television