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So, I downloaded this gadget to my Google homepage that gives me updates on the Flickr pages I follow. It also has this neat search engine where you enter a search word – any search word and it pulls photo thumbnails, about 12 at a time of photos relating to that key word.
Here’s one from the key word BOURDAIN (as in Tony)
As you can see, the selection is pretty random. I kind of like that, and have decided to showcase these on the sidebar starting…now.
E-mail me at crabapplenyc@gmail.com or leave a comment in the the thread if there are any specific search terms you would like to see.
~Sam
Roasted Bone Marrow
Anthony Bourdain, during his England/Scotland episode visited St John Restaurant – the famous Fergus Henderson London gem. He declared the roasted bone marrow on toast with flat leaf parsley salad to be the meal he would order if he were ordering his last meal on death row.
St John has released two cookbooks. The first of the two, was for many years a coveted food bible - owned by few, but in the culinary world held to the highest regard. Tony wrote the forward for the re-release of the book. I happened to purchase this book during my trip to England on a sunny Sunday afternoon after I had eaten the greatest meal of my life.
I met two friends of mine at St John that afternoon. She’s British, he’s an American expat. I waited at the bar, and enjoyed a Guinness – which, by the way IS as good as they say it is across the pond. It was ever better in Ireland, but let’s save that for another post. The bar is cool. They offer a number of beers, wines, and whiskies. It also overlooks their on-site bakery.
My friends arrived, and we sat in the main dining room. I let him order. We started the meal by slurping down cold and perfectly briny oysters and some house-baked bread. This was followed by skate – small salty fish slightly resembling mini-trout that seem to fall off the bone into your mouth, and an order of kohlrabi – some sort for jicama-like vegetable covered in a caper based sauce. Everything, so far was divine.
The roasted bone marrow followed. I’d had this before in New York at The Burger Shoppe downtown and enjoyed it, but something about this one left me in agreement with Mr. Bourdain. I could have eaten a double order all on my own. It could have stopped here and left me a very happy boy, but we then ate Welsh Rarebit, a slice of toast covered in a cheese sauce and sprinkled with Worcestershire sauce, and Faggot & Swede – meatballs made of offal-innards-nasty bits. Not sure what the Swede was though. We ronded out the meal with a glass of champagne and a shared slice of Chocolate Cake with Creme Fraiche.
The Bar at St John
I’ve eaten a lot of good meals, most of which have been in NYC. I never expected my favorite meal of all time to be had in England, but it was. I would return for this alone.
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