We began with two local favorites, a roasted bell pepper filled with tuna sauce, and carne all'Albese, a patty of raw top-quality veal minced with a knife and dressed with olive oil.
WHAT WE LIKE House-made gnocchi, mushroom soup; seared tuna and raw scallop duo, veal Bolognese with house-made fettuccine, sautéed salmon with spinach and soybeans in ginger bouillon, branzino with pineapple and vanilla, sirloin steak, sautéed mushrooms.
Also in the onslaught were a fine raw kibbeh (a velvety veal tartare), some so-so mekanek (grilled sausages) and, of course, the swarm of delicious, unidentified birds.
Try the chilied squid with fennel and shaved raw asparagus or the veal tenderloin with fresh morels and lemon grass, basil and a date-tomato sambal, with an accompanying asparagus crepe and a glass of a superb 1999 Barrique pinot noir from Brigitte and Martin Horber in Thurgau.
In this week's installment of First-Person Shooter, we gave two disposable cameras to Margot Brooks, a dairy farmer who specializes in producing, cheese, beef, veal, and raw milk on her farm Sugar House Creamery in Upper Jay, New York.
Carnivore-friendly favorites include grilled Dutch veal, Argentine steaks, and raw fish specials.
That meal, Roman-style artichokes and tortellini stuffed with ricotta and Swiss chard, rolled veal and a shaved raw fennel salad, was perhaps the most important one of their lives.
The recipe of "cotoletta alla milanese" (literally "chop from Milan" - it is one of the typical dishes of the city) is really simple: a thin slice of veal dropped in whipped raw egg, rolled in bread crumbs and finally deep fried.
Top-end places will rotate a number of dishes, including sushi-grade raw fish, oysters, vitello tonnato (cold veal topped with tuna mayonnaise), barley or couscous salads, cauliflower or cardoon fritters, and a few platters of hot pasta doing the rounds.
