Word: fillet
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...Gautreau's. One of the new restaurants in the Uptown residential area, this is an urbane cafe with oxblood walls and white embossed-tin ceiling. Best dishes: batter-fried eggplant filled with shrimp and crab meat, and rabbit * fillet with sun-dried tomatoes...
...being educated or entertained than being superbly fed, there are a growing number of upscale restaurants serving exotic delicacies with a Latin twist. At Dallas' luxurious Routh Street Cafe, Chef Stephen Pyles offers the ultimate in cross-cultural fare: lobster enchiladas with red pepper creme fraiche and caviar, and fillet of salmon with ancho chili tomatilloes. At Tamayo's, a $2.5 million restaurant located on the edges of East Los Angeles, appetizers include grilled marinated octopus and onion on corn tortillas, followed by such entrees as baked marinated milk-fed kid with ancho and arbol chili, or seasoned shrimp cooked...
Scrod is a catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found...
...share of delectable cliches, most notably ravioli filled with shellfish and anything steamed in a packet of cabbage. At Jamin, the seductive interpretation is ravioli with langoustine on melting leaves of cabbage. Although always immaculately cooked, Robuchon's creations are occasionally a bit too bland. ! Examples are his celebrated fillet of lamb in a salt crust and the chicken poached in a pig's bladder that puffs up like a jolly balloon. Because he finds the quality of French beef and veal inconsistent, he does not serve them...
...look and feel like an American: "I want your confidence and purpose, I want your teeth and tans." But he cannot help hearing the hell raised by garbage trucks between 4 and 5 in the morning, cannot really swallow the harsher barbarities of New York fad cuisine ("fillet of hake in lager and cranberry sauce . . . roast baby pigeons in fresh grapefruit nests"). When city smarts are called for, Henderson loses his nerve. Convinced that he is being attacked on a dark street, he flings his wallet and credit cards to the sidewalk and injures his knees as he runs away...