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the Holy Grill  Summertime and that barbecue hormone is turned
up full blast--hence the thinking woman's guide to grilling  By
Christina Waters  WHAT FOLLOWS--a completely true story about
summer barbecues--in no way set out to rip and shred the myth of
male outdoor cooking prowess. It just sort of turned out that
way. In this discussion about the compulsion to cook outdoors
over a fire, we will discover how, why and under what conditions
grilling is actually safe enough to be performed by men.
Otherwise, we need to face the facts. Women have been the keeper
of the flames ever since the early cults of Isis. Originally the
temple guardians were men, and to them was entrusted the
relatively easy task of keeping the sacred fires burning. It was
a simple matter of adding more olive oil to the holy lamps when
they began to run low. Not simple enough, it seems, for the male
acolytes, who h