We have a tradition in our family. When we go out to dine, everyone else waits until I choose what I want to eat. THEN they make sure they choose something else. Tradition says that anything that can go wrong with a dish, will go wrong with the dish I choose.... hence their caution.
The stories are too numerous to tell here - but the worst... the very worst was a restaurant in Lille. I chose a beef dish with marrowbones... You could have scooped the fat off the top of the dish with a trowel. It hadn't been 'skimmed' at all during the cooking process. It had been cooked so long that the carrots in the dish were transparent and almost brown in colour....!
BLECH... I shudder when I think of it - and it happened about 10 years ago! |