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I hope you and yours enjoyed a Father’s Day as lovely as mine was but an ill-advised Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) probably wishes he’d spent his far away from social media.
“Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years,” the Senate Majority Leader posted to X on Sunday, “but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we’re having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill!”
The post included a lovely photo of Schumer… DOING WHAT TO PERFECTLY GOOD MEAT?
There’s a primal appeal to the classic combination of fire, smoke, and meat — one that many city folks, sadly, haven’t experienced. Our here in the exurbs, I spent the first half of Father’s Day smoking beef jerky — I’ll post my recipe at the end of this column — and the evening grilling ribeyes so thick and flavorful that four of us didn’t even come close to eating two of them. And out of the four of us, two of them were ravenous teenage boys. This is the way.
But I digress.
Witness, because I insist, Chuck Schumer manning (for lack of a better word) the family grill.
