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Dear
Friends
The following item appeared in today's
edition of the Astoria Times,
USA.
' Dressed
in a knit cap and green canvas jacket, food critic
Robert Sietsema dined recently at a new Turkish
kebab and pizza joint in Sunnyside, savoring foods
while being careful not to reveal his identity by
taking out a notebook or ordering a preposterous
number of dishes.
' “I try as hard as
possible not to let them know who I am,” said
Sietsema, 52, who writes reviews on four New York
City restaurants every week for the Village Voice,
selected out of the 10 to 15 restaurants that he
tries out during the week.
' While tasting
forkfuls of adana kebab, a chopped meat Turkish
specialty at Mangal Kebab & Pizza at 46-20
Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, Sietsema revealed some
of his trade secrets: He never consults restaurant
staff about their food, even after his meal, and
he never accepts free food.
' “My kind of
review is on the side of the consumer,” Sietsema
said. “My whole purpose is to let readers know
what they should eat. My job is to confront the
food.”
' Sietsema noted that he would never
have been able to taste illegal delicacies such as
dog penis had he not been incognito. He tried the
rubbery, cartilaginous food, listed on the menu as
“goat special part” at a Korean restaurant in
Murray Hill in Manhattan.
' Dog meat, often
billed as “goat,” is not uncommon in Korean
restaurants, said Sietsema, who reads up on
cuisines in relevant travel and cookbooks before
going in to review a restaurant.
' “The
Koreans love to eat dog. It’s the most healthy
thing, like a farm-raised collie,” he said. “I’m
guessing they raise them somewhere, maybe
somewhere in Westchester.” '
Sietsema is however incorrect in his
statement that dog meat is frequently advertised
as being goat. His confusion (and that of US law
enforcers) lies in the fact that the Korean
characters for "dog" and "goat" appear at first
glance almost identical to westerners. That is no
excuse however for law-enforcement agencies to not
take a closer look. Without blatantly declaring in
English that they are breaking the law, it seems
that caterers to the Asian lust for the
flesh of abused animals can escape the attention
of law-enforcement officials in most States.
In the next couple of days we
will be creating a page on the subject of dog
eating in the USA. This is a result of months
of meticulous research by an American
colleague. This is something we hoped never to
have to do. It will appear under the "More
Abusers" link.
Our continued thanks to all of you for
caring.
From all the team at
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