otisroom wrote:Marsupialized wrote:otisroom wrote:Mandroid2.0 wrote:Nina wrote:steve wrote:I'd pay pretty good for a decent coffee of the type made famous by Italians and fake Italians. But not if it's deconstructed I wouldn't. Or if it has soy milk in it. Or Agave and seltzer or any of that other lame not-doing-the-obvious-for-no-good-reason crap.
How does one know if it has been "deconstructed?"
(Apologies, I am new to this "deconstructed" thing)
It's pretty much exactly what one would expect it to be-- food that is reduced to a the sum of its ingredients and arranged on the plate separately and usually with quite a bit of pretentiousness involved. Like, a BLT sandwich becomes an endive stem holding some chopped heirloom tomatoes marinaded in tarragon vinaigrette with a bacon mousse dollop next-door and then some some tiny puffed pastry topped with a poached quail egg and then...I don't know, some truffle shaving over the egg. Then it's served on a long, rectangular plate imported and you are charged $50 for the experience of eating tiny portions of little mounds of food that are representative of the original dish but presented in a "bold, new artistic manner" by some "brilliant fresh talent" of a chef who probably also studies molecular gastronomy.
That sounds horrible. My wife likes places like that and it's always a bad time for me.
Have you given any thought to drowning the woman?
Careful. She reads this thing sometimes.
I'll take that as a yes