The March 28 Business Week (free registration required) has an article by David Kiley on the popularity of organ meats at respected restaurants in New York, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and other U.S. cities. Kiley himself has the excuse of being unable to digest steaks and chops, but anyone else availing of these "fancy imperialist tidbits" (copyright M. Python) deserves all the ridicule and humiliation that the kitchen staff are undoubtedly directing their way. People up North didn't eat offal because they preferred it to better cuts of meat; they ate it because they were hungry.
If you ask me, posh bastards who go do fancy restaurants and pay a fortune to dine on pigeons' brains, cat's cheese salad, and any other disgusting stuff that the rest of us would have to be starving before we went near need a good kicking and a crash course in "Fetishism for Beginners."
(By the way, it is recommended that this post be enjoyed with a 2002 Chilean Pinot Noir.)
(DO check out the original Steve, Don't Eat It! here.)
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