Word: crabbed
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...told Cao that he had made reservations for dinner at the restaurant Upstairs in the Square, when in fact he was planning a candlelit dinner in Randolph Courtyard of Adams House. Pagano told Cao that he was spending the day in lab, but instead prepared for dinner, buying lobsters, crab legs, scallops, fruits, and champagne. “I recruited the Adams super., dining hall manager, and the House masters to help me out a bit,” Pagano writes. “I set a rather fancy table up in the courtyard, and left a note...
...large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner-table creatures: the humungous turkey was joined by an equally large lobster, crab, duck...
...been pretty happy to discover, on at least half the dinner menus I've scanned in the past year, entres topped with a poached egg: halibut, salmon, pasta, chorizo, ratatouille, tuna tartare, mushrooms, chicken, crab cakes, asparagus, salad. And it always works, adding a richness and silkiness to everything, a protein-on-protein, Atkins-era overindulgence that makes me psyched to be an American. "Hey, this is delicious, but wouldn't it be better if we plopped some bird ovum...
...anything emerged from last week's Madrid Fusion, the celebrated international conference of the epicurean avant garde, it was that algae is in vogue: Ferran Adri?, the founding genius of the new conceptual movement among chefs, wrapped a crab torso in it. Angel Leon, used it to clarify stock. And at the Porto Mui?os booth in the exhibition hall, the lechugas del mar sold like- well, hotcakes. But apart from a predominance of sea vegetables, it was hard to detect clear trends at Madrid Fusion. As some of the world's top chefs gathered to show off their stuff...
...time the U.S. has a chance to make it into the top three. But like politics, he notes, nothing is certain. "I liken Gavin to the Barack Obama of gastronomic figures," he observes. "He's not fully tested, yet he clearly impresses people." Lyons--and that chicken, halibut and crab--awaits...