"Dinner and Derangement" (Bruni) on food worship gone ridiculous

[DGresh]

"Romera is Manhattan’s newest culinary oddity, an elegant hideaway whose conceits include the pairing of each dish in an 11-course meal with a lukewarm flavored water in a lidded grappa glass. One water might be infused with leek and radish, another with jasmine and dried seaweed. Most taste like indecisive teas, commitment-phobic broths or pond runoff. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opi...

[amazinc]

Make a memory of my water????? Jeeeze. How perfectly incredible, inane, insane and all the other ins" I can think of. Gotta love that Bruni.

[JEN10]

Madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nofunlatte]

Thanks for sharing this!

[Phaedrus]

I was just going to post this. He had me chuckling. I call it the "Emperor has no clothes syndrome". eating experiences should be joyful as well as intellectual. Sadly the purveyor of the over-intellectualize cuisine has the upper hand now.