Nearby are several fascinating dishes painted by independent artists called Hausmaler (house painters), who bought porcelain blanks that Meissen sold when they were damaged or deemed unfashionable.
The recipes come entirely un-Americanized from restaurants in Venice -- meaning that if you can't lay your hands on bevarasse (Venetian clams), granceola (spider crab), garusoli (spiny-shelled snails), bruscandoli (hops) or castradina (castrated lamb), you're going to have to forgo some of the most fascinating dishes.
We stayed here over the summer for about five days, and there wasn't one bad meal--and there were tons of fascinating new dishes to surprise and delight me: okra caviar on teeny weenie corn-flour blinis; fried red beans (the way I fry my garbanzos); mac and cheese with homemade sausage; soaked basil seeds that turn into really cool-tasting stuff.
It hasn't stopped him dishing some fascinating dirt... 1.
And while it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting.
The narrator, a mother of two boys, says of herself, "While it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting".
As he's a food artist, his sophisticated dishes are fascinating, too.
Duck & Foie ($19) Besides being very good to eat, this dish is a fascinating study in the modern evolution of sushi in the United States.
His prix-fixe lunch menu is one of the best buys in Bordeaux, and it's fascinating to watch him cooking dishes like quiche with Tomme cheese and green onions, meatloaf, sea bass roasted with chermoula (a Moroccan spice mix), and simple desserts like freshly made yogurt with strawberries and orange-flower water.
But every popular food got its start somewhere, and the history of condiments is in many cases more fascinating then the history of the dishes with which they're paired.
