The first person to correctly name all of the establishments inside this post will win a copy of Chef Andrey Durbach’s “Delicious Chicken Soup“, signed by both Chef Durbach and illustrator, Robert Chaplin.
Good luck! ~ PK
I married an American woman with family roots in the Deep South, so eating catfish has become a regular craving and dining ritual whenever we find ourselves south of the 40th parallel. Having missed our annual migration this year, our appetite for catfish was starting to get rather acute. Luckily, we found out the new Whole Foods Market not only has a high-quality, sustainably harvested supply from Carolina Classics, but they were also having a special for the month of May! Hankering solved. It’s time to fire up the barbeque. Recipes inside.
Last night we went to a friends for dinner and we had filetto di cavallo courtesy of Columbus Meat Market. Chevaline in French, horse meat in English. Clearly the marketers need to take a play from the book of goat or squid marketers and re-brand the product in a foreign tongue, just as cabrillo or calamari sounds better in a foreign tongue, filetto di cavallo sounds beautiful.
(Sorry, I realize the image has nothing to do with the post outside sharing a name, but it was too excellent not to use. I’ll try to ensure pictures link up with text more fully in the future.)
Marco Pierre White’s cult classic cook book/porno mag has been re-released in softcover. After selling for triple digits on the used book market for years, the publishers decided maybe the time was right to cash in on some of the continued interest in this book. And what a book it is, it established MPW’s reputation to a large extent through the first half which present grainy black and white photos of him and his brigade hard at work. The second half of the book presents recipes which are somewhat dated especially in presentation. Everything is arranged in circles. Circles were the precursor to vertical apparently.
I have been playing a wine game with restaurant sommeliers and wine nerds across town where I show up with a mystery bottle and ask them to review it blind. By not knowing what the wine is or who represents it, hopefully, an honest-no-bs-review is achieved. ~ PK
Come inside and read the review of our next contestant…
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