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.
Those industrious Germans, never letting a thing go to waste!
Actually, the only bad meal I've had there is head cheese (Sulze, I believe they call it). That was before I could speak much German and I just pointed to the first entree on the menu and said, "Bitte schoen."
They have another funny delicacy in the north, which consists of congealed fat with crunchy things in it. You're supposed to eat it on bread. I think birds would enjoy it more.
And no, I did not have any Haggis.
Whoa! I was in Scotland last month too!
I ate a lot of chip-shop haggis as well as the pricey stuff at the good restaurants--I love that stuff!
What I would do for an Irn-Bru and a deep fried Mars Bar right now...
Yikes! I have relatives up in Iowa and actually assisted (as little as possible) in the making of head cheese years ago. I'm not a big fan of the organization, but the U.N. could do some good in the world with a resolution insisting that menu entries such as the one you ran afoul of append the motto, WARNING: This is HEAD CHEESE!, in seven languages.
USDA certified. Snout Free Scrapple
This thread could not have come at a better time: Last night a friend and I brought a 'big' cottontail home from the mesa--and a 62" Western Diamondback rattler-- 5'2" of rattler!.
I deep fried the rattler and we had it as an appetizer with buffalo wing sauce and bleu cheese dressing--delicious. We couldn't eat the whole thing so I have some meat in the fridge still. We'll probably finish it off tonight.
The rabbit I rubbed with a mixture of scotch, butter, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, sage, salt and lots of cracked black pepper--it's an old scottish recipe--and then baked it.
We washed it all down with my homebrew beer. It was delicious, savory and cost about the price of 2 .22 rounds.!
No, I didn't go to the tattoo--It's quite a production and I usually get the video. I was staying in Stirling and just didn't want the hassle of trying to get back to Stirling after the tattoo and the trains aren't running.
I was there to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. While the tattoo is a spectacle, The Pipe Band Championships is a better display of musical virtuosity and quality.
I did get another tattoo in Edinburgh, though! From Tribal Body Art down the Royal Mile at the Cannongate.
I did visit 'Bobby' and had a pint of Tennent's 90 at the pub.
Why, by the smell, of course.
Bet your pregnant. LOL
Further reading of this thread stops here.
This is a bad thread to ask that question Bella. Someone might reply they like kids as long as they're "well done".
Don't get pregnant. LOL. Just kidding. They're good, thanks.
I think I should flag Sueann.
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