Al Dente

A punctilious waiter at the Steak Barn is taken aback when a diner orders the vegetarian option. Regardless of how glistening and sharp the restaurant's knives, how large the type of the menu's meat dishes, how baleful the Italian's eye when he takes the order, and how argumentative the cook, the customer steadfastly awaits crudités. Who could this naif be? Written by