Okay. So, I would hate to be called a "foodie," because to me that implies elitist attitudes that I don't (like to think I) share. I like food, and like to make it, and find it interesting in general , and, truth be told, probably revel unattractively in my esteem for low-brow favorites, like Brooklyn-style pizza from Domino's, which if you haven't tried, well, I have no words for you. But I don't get exercised about where my veal comes from, and don't experience anything NSFW if a farmer's market has heirloom tomatoes, and frankly don't pretend that there is any herb which might flourish under my iron fist.
But then I've realized that I never do this thing that people on Food Network are always doing, namely, putting more than one thing on a fork at one time. This makes me nervous, but also makes perfect sense, and is the whole point of eating things with other things (of course there are exceptions what with palate cleansers etc). But if I fail to put a forkful of Ina Garten's oven-baked fried chicken on a fork along with some of her buttermilk mashed potatoes, is there some kind of alchemy I'm missing out on? There has to be, doesn't there? P. tells me that all of the rice-eating in Japan confounded him until he realized that you were meant to have a bite of fish immediately folloed by a bite of rice, and that gestalt was the thing you chewed and swallowed.
If this is true, then eating is infinitely more interesting than I thought it was.
Faithful readers? Do you do this? Do you not do this? What's the story here?
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yes, I do this. and you're totally missing out.
I mean, isn't this the whole point of the casserole?
or the burrito?
or the more poetic primanti's sandwich?
or rocky road ice cream?
or... I wonder how long I could go on listing examples.
I think my point is that in any good relationship, the sum is greater than the parts.
(congrats on the job, btw!!!!!)
As a youngster, I dreaded the terror mixing-of-the-food, and was fastidious in creating separate places on the plate for each item. These days, I can and do mix; sometimes this is great. Other times, though, I still enjoy the lovely taste of my mashed potatoes without the pesky chicken. I guess I'm a purist...(also congrats on the job!!)--amanda
I immediately think of that combination of all combinations, the roma + fresh mozzarella + basil + olive oil combo. Which one necessarily layers on the fork, to great gastronomical delight.
And by one I guess I mean me. :-)
By the by, this is making me think of the amazing food I've eaten that was prepared by you. Mmm... When will I next eat at your table, o muse of the kitchen?
Just this past weekend the boyfriend and I were eating separate cheeseburgers, and I kept grabbing mine from, like, the bottom hemisphere as seen from above, that is, the side that was closest to me on the plate. And I'd flip it upside down and take a bit out of the top. It seemed the easiest way to get it from plate to mouth with the least amount of mess.
Then he said that I should eat it with the meat down and the toppings up, as it was prepeared, because it works differently on the palate. I thought, "Oh, I'm dating a foodie," and, "What palate?"
Then I tried it and he was so right. I actually tasted the meat of the burger, and then the toppings and condiments as a kind of accompaniment.
It's related, right?
Dusty - are you saying that you would eat the cheeseburger upside down?
I eat pizza from the crust to the tip, which makes sense to me, since I get to enjoy the crust and the anticipation. I maintain that this is also why I would sometimes light the filter end of the cigarette (back in the day).
I am saying I ate the cheeseburger upside-down. Sometimes, it's the easiest way, but not the most savory!
I also eat ice cream from upside-down spoons, the convex end fitted up into the roof of my mouth. This, despite it being an irritant of Hal Incandenza (though while reading Infinite Jest I, ultra-fanboy, did seriously reconsider whether this choice was right for me).
Should I read Infinite Jest?
What? Of course.
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