Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.
That crisp pastry shell can really hold in the heat, and an abrupt puncture will send a geyser of steaming juice and melted cheese directly onto your tender tongue.
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Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
10 Feb. 2026
An enormous geyser erupted outside a Whataburger on Chimney Rock Road in Uptown Houston on Sunday morning, sending a towering jet of water into the air and flooding the 24-hour restaurant, nearby sidewalks and part of the roadway.
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Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
The star of the show at both is the steak trompo, in which strip and sirloin steaks are skewered on a glossy vertical spit, sliced thinly to order onto a supple corn tortilla with avocado salsa.
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Andrea Strong,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Feb. 2026
Twelve days later, an Inupiat man drove his snowmachine across the frozen lagoon to get some whale blubber from an ice cellar located on a spit, about two miles from the village.
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