Le fine art of Cuisine Presentation (506 hits)
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Submitted by john dunker <johndunker.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-10-08 21:51:44 EDT
The "fine" art of presenting beautiful cuisine could only be invented in a country as over-inidulgent as..................................FRANCE!!! WHAMMY!!
No but really, I honestly do not understand the obsession with higher class foods be beautiful on the plate when they sacrifice so much in taste? For example, I and my family attended a thanksgiving dinner at a "Fine" restaurant one year because nobody felt like cooking. Whatever I said, if we're paying $250 for four people, this must be exceptional food. So the first plate comes. It's a salad that I thought I was supposed to place on my mantel at home. It wasn't much food, so i ate it in one fell swoop and it was on to round two. They brought me a glass of flavoured ice. Flavoured ICe! OK, I thought, We must've taken a wrong turn and ended up at a witch doctor's secret lair. But no, alas, this was my second course. "It cleanses the palette" my mom told me. OH! LA DEE DA! Of course it cleanses the palette, it tastes like it could strip paint!
Finally, the main course. For the real FILLER of the evening, I was given about three cubic inches of turkey, and a potato. BUt to EXENTUATE this plate that would be about as much as a hobo would get in the lowliest of soup kitchens. I ate it in 1.2 seconds. But what ho! As much as it didn't live up to expectations, the cook glazed the plate with some special sauce, and doused flour all over it, making a Van Gough out of my trough.
And through the entire experience all that kept ringing through my mind is...
"IM TURNING THIS INTO POO!"
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Submitted by BlinkSparky (user info) at 2004-10-09 07:28:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
if it doesnt fill me i want a refund
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-10-08 23:29:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
+1 for French bashing and Family Guy references.
Time for calzone.