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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “InterCHANGE,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Culinary no-no #49
By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, Apr 6 2008, 07:30 PM
Last night, Jennifer and I dined at one of the best restaurants in town, Dream Dance.
Featured on the menu was an 8 ounce Kobe beef ribeye steak.
The price?
$140.
After all, we’re talking Kobe beef.
Hell, I thought.
I can get Kobe beef for a heckuva lot cheaper than $14/oz.
The Big Apple is buzzing this week about the debut last Tuesday of a new luxury item on the menu at the legendary Old Homestead Steakhouse in New York City where they say they specialize in the four food groups: Beef, beef, beef, and beef.
Restaurant co-owner Greg Sherry says he wanted to create “the most decadent food item of 2008.”
I believe he has, taking an American classic and converting it into a Japanese delicacy.
The Old Hempstead Steakhouse makes a burger, taking 14 ounces of the highest grade of Japanese Kobe Wagyu and places a medallion of 4 ounces of seared sirloin Wagyu inside.
No French’s mustard or Heinz ketchup as condiments.
No, no.
On the side, a special sake onion ketchup prepared by Executive Chef Oscar Martinez.
You also get miso and ginger aioli, and some tater tots.
The cost of your Kobe beef burger?
81 smackers.
What makes so Kobe beef so extravagant?
The New York Times once reported, “The Kobe cattle are confined in a very small space to develop fatter tissue. They are given daily rubdowns to make their flesh more tender. Bottles of beer are poured down their gullets to stimulate appetites. By the time their short life ends, they have experienced as little as a plucked graduate of one of those Arkansas chicken factories.”
America is dipping deeper into its wallets for more than just burgers.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Monica Guzman writes about the soon-to-open Village RoadShow Gold Class Cinema, “with seven auditoriums with 30-foot wide screens and a maximum of 40 stadium-style seats, plus seat-side food and beverage service, an expansive lounge with a full bar, and reclining seats with footrests.”
Price per ticket: $35.
Also in Seattle, the $15 cup of coffee and the $480 cocktail.
About the most expensive cup of coffee in the world, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes, “Local coffee fanatics say it began a few years ago in a converted trolley shed in Ballard, where two Stanford grads designed an $11,000 coffee maker called the Clover. It uses a piston-created vacuum, a microfilter and precision heating to brew what's being hailed as the ideal single cup of coffee.”
And that $480 libation?
Westneat found it at the El Gaucho Steakhouse in Seattle, “made with a liqueur called Grand Marnier Cent Cinquantenaire (actual slogan: "Hard to find, impossible to pronounce, prohibitively expensive").”
Some recession we're having, hey?
But I still can’t over that $81 burger.
This woman might be satisfied…..
But for me.....
And for the record…..
Last night……………..
At Dream Dance…….
I went for the veal chop.
PREVIOUS CULINARY NO-NO’S
1) Ketchup on a brat
2) Green peppers on pizza
3) The dirty martini
4) Fruity brats
5) A Bloody Mary after dinner
6) Women “manning” the grill
7) Eating pizza at Festa Italiana, brats at German Fest, or tacos at Fiesta Mexicana. (Be adventurous. You can have those items anytime).
8) Eating a cream puff as though it was a hamburger.
9) Taking your own bottle of sauce when invited to a barbecue.
10) Touching the grill if you’re a guest at an outdoor barbecue.
11) Coaching the host on how to grill.
12) Some regional flavored ice cream…..like black licorice.
13) Taking the husks off before you grill corn on the cob
14) Being afraid to chill red wine
15) Pizza on the grill
16) When serving exotic or strange dishes to guests, do not tell them exactly what it is. Instead, use a more inviting term (caviar) rather than being blunt (fish eggs).
17) In late summer and early fall, this time of year, don’t buy zucchini. Somehow, someway, you will find zucchini or zucchini will find you.
18) Showing disrespect to your restaurant server
19) Eating out on a Monday night
20) Pumpkin beer
21) Mail-order turkey
22) Grilled cheese is just for kids.
23) Dining in the dark.
24) Ketchup on spaghetti
25) Sneaking healthy foods into treats to get your kids to eat it.
26) Do not throw away culinary gifts received in the mail because you don’t like them.
27) Do not feel guilty about eating Oreos. (Oreos are not to blame for out of control obesity).
28) Doing something so totally ridiculous that you are desperately forced to call the Butterball Turkey Hot-Line for assistance.
29) Don’t forget the sweet potato January-October.
30) Using resource guides from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s on gracious living to plan holiday parties
31) Eating cranberries, the best of the super-foods, only during the holidays.
32) Egg nog that isn’t spiked.
33) Putting hot spices and other weird stuff in chocolate bars and hot cocoa.
34) Don’t disregard fruitcake.
35) Sparkling wine on New Year’s Eve ain’t champagne.
36) Ordering a Coors Light or any facsimile when at an outdoor open-air bar on a tropical beach.
37) Smoking bans in restaurants and bars in Wisconsin.
38) Goat burgers and healthy items at tailgate parties.
39) The restaurant of the future, with all kinds of cameras trained on you for....research.
40) The Budweiser Chelada
41) Replating
42) Sour cream on potato pancakes, as opposed to applesauce
43) Meatless Monday's
44) Digital dining
45) Tips on what not to do to your waiter
46) If you want a traditional St. Patty’s dinner, as good as it is, corned beef and cabbage ain’t it
47) Doing everything to PEEPS except eating them
48) Foodie bloggers and writers eating dangerously
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