On page 85, I stumbled across this line while reading the Pistachio Cake recipe (for the record: pistachio cake, lemon curd, pistachion butter cream).
"Once all of the egg whites have been incorporated, you will have a snotty green soup in your mixing bowl. Right on."
I already loved the book and thanks to "Right on" I now love it 100x more.
For complicated reasons that will remain entirely unexamined here, it reminded me of a lunch a handful of years ago, when my brother and I were both writing up a handful of short reviews for an alt-weekly's Best Restaurants issue. We were at an excellent barbecue joint, and we started a contest in ridiculous superlatives about how great his sandwich was. He won, or I think it was his line although we both tend to lose track of these things and it's entirely possible that its questionable brilliance half belongs to each of us: "I loved the sandwich so much, I fucked it on the table in front of my sister."
No, the line was not actually used in print. The alt weekly wasn't that alt.
Not very alt at all. Still, those were fine old times, and it WAS a really good sandwich. I think I ended up just eating it, though. Who needs complications?
(Didn't we order an absurd amount of food, or was that some other place we needed to try?)
Posted by: Rob Lightner | October 29, 2011 at 06:12 PM