Posted on 09/05/2001 5:38:43 AM PDT by Orual
If it's true that you are what you eat, then what are we to make of the fact that we live here in the land of foie gras with chocolate sauce? Of eel with roasted watermelon and green tea-cauliflower foam? Whatever the answer, one thing is clear: Today, the New York culinary scene provides food for thought to challenge even the most bizarre tastes. See which Manhattan restaurants have the weirdest dishes of all: Can your palate handle it?
#7: Foie Gras with Dark Chocolate Sauce and Orange Marmalade
Goose liver only a chocoholic could love...
• $72 prix fixe at Lutece
The Dish: Is it breakfast? An appetizer? Dessert? If you're pressed for time, kill three courses in one slab of foie gras, drowned in dark chocolate sauce and accented with orange marmalade. All that's missing is the toast. The New York Times called it “ill-chosen” and “out of register” but still gave new chef David Feau’s pyrotechnics two stars.
The Restaurant: What would Andre Soltner think of this revamped culinary legend? The guiding force behind Lutece ( 249 E. 50th St.) is long retired, and his pantheon is being turned on its head. East Side ladies beware, this is not your father’s Lutece.
Other Dishes: Feau, formerly of Guy Savoy in Paris, is no French-cuisine snob. He borrows flavors from around the world to create dishes like raw tuna with cilantro, apple and Moroccan oil; cumin- and rosemary-crusted lamb loin with lemon sauce and parsnip gratin; and curried squab with mascarpone and fava beans.
#10: Lobster with American Cheese
The sublime and the ridiculous on a plate.
• $22.95 at East Boat Restaurant The Dish: Think of it as a new use for the Kraft single: Icky, viscous processed cheese defiles pricey lobster flesh. “Like tuna melt!” the owner told the reviewer from the New York Post.
The Restaurant: The Post’s Steve Cuozzo, the only New York critic to pore through the bizarre, voluminous menu at East Boat Restaurant (72 Kenmare St.), recently declared the place “NY’s weirdest eatery.”
Other Dishes: An endless variety of lobster preparations, from Sichuan to satay, served alongside garlic bread, New England clam chowder, and wok-sauteed spaghetti slathered in ketchup.
Dude, that's only eight inches less of rattler than there is of me.
Rumor (mine, of course) has it that I may get "700,000 Giant Carnivorous Mice" for Christmas...if I play my cards right with Santa (scotch).
I'm thinking "sushi."
Cook french fries in that lard. I love scrapple. I also have high cholesterol, who would of figured that. I think that is from the sunscreen though.
I'm not sure if her Rhubarb Soup is what others refer to as Rhubarb Compote which is rather tasty if eaten cool/chilled. I agree with you the thought of warm Rhubarb Soup is not too appetizing, however, without having tried it I will withhold my final opinion ;-)
Fried cow udder? No wonder the Germans drink so much beer.
Look at that. Seven months old and I was posting on the internet. I'm a freaking genius.
To me, nothing beats "Crunchy Frog" and "Anthrax Ripple" for desert! And "Spring Surprise" is quite that!
Mark
I'm sure that every ethnic and cultural group has at least a few foods that when seen by "outsiders," well, let's just say they think "that stuff would gag a maggot!"
For instance, being a Jew, 2 items come to mind: Kishke (aka "baked derma"). Frankly, I have no idea what's in that stuff, but it's stuffed inside an intestine... Frankly, I've always thought of intestines as something food goes through shortly after chewing, not as one of the course you're eating! Then there's Gefilte Fish. I don't know how to describe this stuff, other than it's ground up cooked fish, along with onions, celery, and carrots. Then it's molded into balls and served in some sort of geletin. I really like it, as long as I've gotten all of the gelatin off of it... as long as there's plenty of fresh horseraddish to go along with it... A non-Jewish friend of mine who once tried it (and who LOVES fish) looked like he was going to puke.
Mark
Try going to a Jewish Deli, and get yourself a tongue sandwich. If they slice the beef tongue just right, you can see the taste buds. It always creeped me out that while I was eating the tongue, somewhere, a cow was "tasting" me!
Mark
Paua Fritters are what I believe they are called. I may have misspelt "Paua". Was it purple on the inside? I always thought that they were made from shark.
Wow...pre 9/11 thread resurrection...
More and more in every way, i'm thankful to be a TEXAN where we eat real food. bar-b-que, chili, steak, beans, and
meskin food. yum!
I bone-out my deer and boil the bones until any remaining meat, grisle, etc falls off the bone.
When the meat cools, I pick through it and discard any grisle, fat, small bones, and run it through the meat grinder.
I discard the water and put the meat pack into a clean pot. I add enough water to cover the ground meat, then add salt, pepper, and sage to taste. Lastly, I add enough corn-meal (premixed with water) to thicken the whole mess into a lumpy mass and spoon this into greased, glass baking pans and chill in the fridge.
When chilled, slice and fry and serve with eggs.
Making me hyngry just thinking about it.
I ate two. I was fairly drunk though.
Ever tried lutefisk?
I've pickled my own whitefish.
When I was in China I ate a lot of strange things, but I think that the strangest of all would be the bone marrow. The servers came out with a silver platter laden with whole lamb's legs, and each one had a straw poking out of the inside. You were supposed to suck out the bone marrow with the straw. In order to seem polite I ate some of it, but it was so strange that I couldn't finish it all.
I also remember the shrimp, I couldn't bring myself to eat their little heads so I had to pretend to cough, spit out the head, and hide it in my sock.
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