Seared Loin Lamb Chops With Olives and Soft Polenta 8 thick-cut loin lamb chops (about 2 1/2 pounds total), each tied with butcher's twine 1 cup coarsely chopped pitted black olives 3/4 cup olive oil Zest of one lemon 1/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste Soft polenta (see recipe) for serving.
A round piece of chocolate will taste softer and creamier than a triangular piece, despite the recipe being exactly the same.
Once safely ashore in the bitty town of Oxford, I zeroed in on Schooners, a restaurant snug between a busy marina and Town Creek, looking to taste soft-shell crab.
MOMOFUKU MILK BAR The third Milk Bar from David Chang and Christina Tosi, in a landmarked storefront on the Upper West Side, is the largest, with benches and stools for about 15 people to taste soft-serve ice cream, milk shakes, cookies, the addictive crack pie, croissants and savory pork and vegetable buns.
Your correspondent tasted soft, sweet kale nibbled straight off the plant.
And there are plastic plates of pork stir-fried with Chinese olives ("I'm buggered if I know what they are," says Thompson), braised duck intestines ("It tastes like soft rubber bands, which is actually OK") and what turns out to be ever-present over our two days in Bangkok – a pungent red catfish curry.
He made the Fisticuffs taste like lemon rind, then like lemon and honey, then he said he wanted it "softer," and made it taste like caramel pushed to its darkest limit and doused with cream.
It pours with a languor more like that of honey, and tastes softer and richer than the "pure maple syrup" sold in most supermarkets (even the stuff in the nice leaf-shaped bottles).
A graduate of the French Culinary Institute's pastry program, Ms. Tosi solemnly tasted soft-serve ice creams flavored with Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Krispies, Corn Pops, Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch.
First up, a bamboo worm (it tastes like the soft part of a pork scratching, very salty); then a weaver ant (think popcorn with an elongated crackling in the back of the mouth); next, a toasted silkworm (high in protein, low in fat); a giant mole cricket (disintegrates between your teeth with a bitter aftertaste); and, finally, a weevil beetle (twist and chew – tastes like crispy bacon).
