Its main point is to get more of us to appreciate the distinctive breed as a menu item, including persuading caterers and restaurateurs to be specific when serving Herwick hogget and young meat, rather than simply calling it 'lamb'lamb
No sooner had they arrived in the earthquake zone than they had set up their bordello, "the pink apartments", and were ready for — as one of them put it — "young meat barbecues".
"Hey, Erica likes the young meat [Mick said].
There is no reason for this, other than we have been trained to think that young meat is better, because it doesn't taste too much like meat, and it is tender, therefore it doesn't challenge is in the kitchen.
"But it's the fair rolling through the new young meat".
Chi Spacca is the new meat-intensive restaurant room in Mozza's Italian-cuisine complex on Melrose, overseen by Nancy Silverton (and her partners Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali) and the particular obsession of its chef Chad Colby, who has been the young meat chef to watch in Los Angeles for years.
At the beginning, for example, there will be microgreens and young meats like veal.
A 10-course tasting menu includes only one protein — perhaps a baby squid lacquered with sweet onion or the grilled young horse meat that the menu refers to, bluntly, as "colt chunk".
(Soft corn tortillas are filled with "beans" made from sun-dried tomatoes and sunflower seeds; the "sour cream" topping is a purée of cashews, young coconut meat, and lime juice).
We've got less than a month to go before I'm relegated to wandering up and down the Sunset Strip in search of fresh, young man meat.
