She lets us browse by category : foods named for what they look like ( as in vermicelli, Italian for " little worms " ); foods named through mix-ups or mistranslation ( German chocolate cake first was confected in the Lone Star State ); foods named for people and places ( lobster ( Benjamin ) Wenburg was changed, after the ignominious scuffle at Delmonico's, to lobster Newburg ).
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"Entertainment Weekly " panned the book as " a first draft of " To Kill a Mockingbird " " and said " Though " Watchman " has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, bad dialogue, and underdeveloped characters " . " Ponderous and lurching ", wrote William Giraldi in " The New Republic ", " haltingly confected, the novel plods along in search of a plot, tranquilizes you with vast fallow patches, with deadening dead zones, with onslaughts of clich?and dialogue made of pamphleteering monologue or else eye-rolling chitchat . " In " The New Yorker ", Adam Gopnik commented that the novel could be seen as " a string of clich�s ", although he went on to remark that " some of them are clich�s only because, in the half century since Lee's generation introduced them, they've " become " clich�s; taken on their own terms, they remain quite touching and beautiful ".
