“Gotta save room for mixed grill,” a character says in Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel, “The Corrections,” a little ominously. The meal stood then as a kind of metaphor for American ennui, a groaning ...

Well, it’s nie on three full moons since the ol’ ‘Rona put a hitch in our collective giddy-up. And I, for one, find myself daily taking less delight in my own company. Happily, that nice man on the ...

Sometime, we don’t know when, we’re gonna party like it’s 1999. All over again. We’ll bust out the charcoal and rifle through the junk drawer for a box of matches. We’re making a mixed grill. The ...

The Brazilians have churrasco, a mixed grill of chicken and beef, heavy on hearts and other small parts. The Argentines have asado, fire-kissed beef and kidneys and liver and sausages tied together ...