 More mods...
Easy people......I am on both sides of that one: my son, also a chef is violently alergic to lactic acid....but I notice that many of the people with nut allergies were allergic to the sulfites in red wine in the 80's....and are now drinking only Merlot.....
Mods: Customer wanted to know if he could have the minestrone without any beans.......At the same place, we had a pasta sautee with lots of pancetta, sun dried tomatoes, kalamatas, etc. The mix was made up ahead in the cold table, of course. People were constantly ordering the Pancetta Pasta...hold the pancetta. Our chef insisted the girls call it a Stupid. Of course it never occurred to him to just keep the pancetta in a separate tub.....I was only the owner, so what did I know.....
Last month at our protest restaurant (only open on Monday night) I got a request for a vegan risotto. The girls know to suggest a risotto off the menu for vegans. Made it from scratch, of course (fennel, carrot, onion, garlic, porcini, fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, pine nuts...over arugula...all organic....$8!!) in the middle of the rush (two guys doing 60 covers in an hour). The woman sent back the risotto, and followed the waitress back into the kitchen! Demanding a ''veggie plate.'' I was too dumbfounded to be pissed....I explained that the only vegetable we had was asparagus, and it was garnishing her plate. She started yelling that everyone else was getting veggies, and pointed at the creamer potatoes. I want that!!
Are potatoes a vegetable? When you slice mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, carrots, etc do they stop being vegetables? What is it about rice that makes it not a vegetable if potatoes are?  |