[Sca-cooks] Food and squeamishness

[M. Traber]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> I suspect a baron of beef (a cut I've always wanted to 
> roast for an event)

mmmm=) ask rob or phlip, i have mentioned wanting to do one for a feast 
as well.

> Why did I do this anyway? Because for a Vlad-Tepes-themed event a 
> couple-three years ago, we presented our Viceroy, Your Host and de facto 
> Impaler Du Jour, with a nicely glazed roast chicken impaled on a little 
> wooden stake set in a little wooden platform. It was untrussed, wings 
> and long legs akimbo, with the point of the stake going into the bird's 
> nether regions, through its body, in and out of its neck a time or 
> three, and finally emerging from its open beak. (It was also wearing a 
> little paper crown and was named Dario, the Gypsy Chicken, but that's a 
> story for another day.)

hm, I have this annoying rooster named Cogburn that I wil willingly let 
you make another gypsey chicken out of for an event if he attacks me one 
mre time...

> 
> But then Western food lore is fairly rife with stories of the different 
> solutions people have come up with to avoid The Food That Reproaches, 
> extending in some cases to foods that are in abso-floggin'-lutely no way 
> an issue for even the remotely squeamish, such as Tournedos Rossini, a 
> dish reputed (at the time it was suggested by Rossini himself to 
> whichever restaurant chef first prepared it)  to be so ugly that it was 
> brought from the kitchen covered with a napkin, with the waiter walking 
> backwards, and serving the plate from behind the back of the diner. What 
> is this awful dish? A small filet steak, served on a fried crouton, 
> topped with a slice of foie gras and a slice of truffle. The 
> _HORRRR-orrrrrrrrrr_...

I volunteer myself to handle the disposal of any tourenados rossini if 
they squik out anybody=)

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