Comments on: Bar Jester Chronicles 11: The Thoughtful Omnivore

By: Jason Peters

Jason Peters — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:40:05 +0000

WmO’H: only if you drink the bourbon neat. Remember what ice is for. (I would be disinclined to try it with bison, but a Chicago Mick could probably get away with it.)

By: WmO'H

WmO'H — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:03:38 +0000

I have some bison in my freezer. I’m tempted to try this recipe on it. Would it work?

By: Robin Datta

Robin Datta — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:38:33 +0000

To my knowledge there is no single plant that contains all essential amino-acids in proportions adequate to get us around Liebig’s law of the minimum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acids

(Easy mnemonic: L cubed T squared PMV)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig's_law_of_the_minimum

However an adequate variety of plants can get around this, as is evident from the millions of vegetarians around the world. Two eminent persons of the last century who incidentally were also vegetarians: Mohandas Keramchand Gandhi and Adolf Hitler.

By: Dr. T. David Gordon

Dr. T. David Gordon — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:09:58 +0000

I’ve never prepared it myself, but you now have me tempted. We used to get it from Fuad at the Chicago Steak House in Nashua, NH, who also made a fabulous, knock-out, table-side Casesar salad if you ordered the tartare (I’ve learned to make the salad, but not yet the tartare). Fuad was/is Moroccan, but his culinary training was in France. Any reason the Brahms 4th symphony wouldn’t work? It works with everything else, so I thought I’d check. We grilled lamb chops tonight, so I might have to “fast” a little on red meat before attempting this…

By: RiverC

RiverC — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:24:28 +0000

@Kate – We all give up red meat for Lent – all meat…

It’s worth it when you break into the St. Aubrey and bacon on Sunday morning, though.

Sounds like a fantastic idea, this – though it is so rich that I wonder if I’d be able to even finish the plate. Very pungent. I never was much for Shallots until we did a crab soup with them.

As a lover of sushi, I’m all for eating things right off the beast if I’m not going to retch and reel for 24 hours afterwards.

Next we’re going to hear (hopefully) about the qualities of the water in various canned goods. While everyone is wasting perfectly good water and nutrients, yours truly is enjoying fish oil and spinach water. Clam water is something I have trouble with, though.

By: Rob G

Rob G — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:09:31 +0000

We had a thing here in Pittsburgh 40+ years ago (don’t know if other places had it as well) called a “cannibal sandwich,” which was basically a raw hamburger on a bun with onions. They were a bit before my time, but I probably wouldn’t have eaten one anyways.

My quasi-vegetarianism is based on a rejection of factory farming, not a rejection of carnivorism in general. I’m happy to eat free-range organic meat and poultry.

By: Nicole D

Nicole D — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:29:58 +0000

I feel nearly the same about any opportunity to enjoy kibbeh nayeh, which is a Lebanese dish of freshly ground raw lamb with spices, best eaten with pita bread still puffed up and hot from the oven. Usually, in my case, accompanied by the noise of a very large family and some arak.

By: Kate Dalton

Kate Dalton — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:34:07 +0000

Let me guess who gave up red meat for Lent.

When we were in Belgium, my husband and I were amused to see this dish called “American prepare’” on the menu, when we knew very few Americans who so prepared it. It’s “Peters prepare’” to us from here on out.

By: jmgregory

jmgregory — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:29:51 +0000

The fortification and lemon are very important, as illustrated in the short story linked below. Be ye warned: ’tis not for the faint of heart.

http://fray.com/drugs/worm/

By: D.W. Sabin

D.W. Sabin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:45:19 +0000

Might I add the Vermont Transit Bus Station Ground Chuck Tartare developed by a street inhabitant of Burlington, Vermont we referred to as “Mr. Soft Contacts” due to his sartorial innovation of wearing a Soft Contacts advertising shirt for several weeks and then turning it inside out for several more weeks in order to wash it.

He would assemble himself at a booth in the diner at the bus station and order up a heaping plate of raw ground chuck, lather it in raw onions and smooth it all down with black coffee muddied with approximately 15 packets of sugar. It must have been fortifying because I would often come upon him at about 11 pm baying at a group of young college boys he’d cornered off Church Street. As I walked by, I would always salute him with an “evening Bobby, nice night eh?” and he would interrupt his ferocious braying to reply “same to you” and smile sweetly before turning back to the cowering flock of college boys in order to resume the frightful bellowing. He’d corner up to 5 strapping youths at a time but truth be told, many were from New Jersey where un-cooked meat is anathema.

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:09:31 +0000

I cannot for the life of me tell if he is serious or not…

By: Jeffrey Polet

Jeffrey Polet — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:08:50 +0000

There are no circumstances under which it is acceptable to listen to Carmina Burana, and very few for Tchaikovsky’s 6th (the 4th, on the other hand, is another matter). And I will fight to the death any man who suggests that a good single malt is an accompaniment, even to activity.