Cheng admires a carbonized-steel wok with a weighty magnolia wood handle and explains the difference between Shanghainese and Cantonese woks (the Shanghainese are deeper and rounder).
Once, in a fit of melancholic vanity, I burned my report card in the sink of the KFC where I worked scraping carbonized grease from the pressure cookers.
How can this big, amply furnished front-engine berlinetta, with nearly 18 cubes of cargo space in the back (with bench seat folded), outpace a carbonized wraith of a car like the Enzo?