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Explat
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Downtown Pleides
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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: New Jersey BBQ chef "ambassador" for North Korea |
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Bizarre story about a barbecue joint owner from Hackensack who is a diplomatic liaison to North Korea:
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Kitchen Diplomacy
Hot Sauce to Nuclear Talks: A Restaurateur's Odd Career As Envoy to the
HACKENSACK, N. J.
Waiting for the North Korean ambassador to show up for dinner, Bobby Egan, who is the world's only barbecue chef/self-appointed unofficial American ambassador to rogue nations, launches into an impassioned monologue on why he, Bobby Egan, is a better diplomat than America's real diplomats.
"You couldn't put Condoleezza Rice or Madeleine Albright on a level with me in dealing with the Koreans," he says. "They've never even been in a fistfight. I've been in fistfights -- including with the Koreans. These are tough guys. Condoleezza Rice is a piano p layer. She's not a rugged, all-American boy."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803544.html
And here's an old story from NPR on Egan:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6665732
Anybody here from Jersey who knows this guy?
Last edited by Explat on Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:39 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| New Jersey Barbeque? You gotta be kidding me! |
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Explat
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Downtown Pleides
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Why?
What do you call barbecue?
It seems every place in the world has a different definition of barbecue.
I would guess that in Jersey, BBQ probably refers to ribs. Of course, the picture provides some clues to what he serves. A lot of it is grilled.
In the Northeast, if a family says it is going to have a barbecue, it largely means cooking outside over a grill. In the South, barbecue has a different meaning.
I wonder if he knows how to prepare Korean BBQ? Something tells me he does. |
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