It is true, I ate crocodile tail with a French chocolate sauce atop the revolving restaurant in Durban prepared by a Malay chef. Not only that, I managed to drink a bottle of that oh so tasty 1996 Australian Shiraz that I had been drinking regularly but looking for ever since three New York tasters gave it rave reviews. And I have to say at a cost of 8 times the daily wage it was hardly shocking that my fellow diners were, as I, a paler shade of white (although I did notice a couple of ANC starlettes in the inner crcle). After descending from the restaurant I noticed a couple of Zulu men indulging in some cosmo cheese puffs. I guess we smiled at each other based on the recognition that we were all participating in a global culture.
Seriously, Doug I am all for good food, fast cars and fine linen but lets not get ahead of ourselves.
Travis
> T Fast wrote:
>
> >No please, Not Doug, he will have all of us eating cosmopolitian cheese
> >puffs! (which taste just like american cheese puffs only made in
_________).
>
> I suppose that was a joke of sorts, but cheese puffs aren't terribly
> cosmopolitan. But one of the nice things about cuisine today is
> exactly how cosmpolitan it is - I can walk down Grand Street and
> choose among Indian, Italian, Argentine, French bistro, Polish
> crepes, and nouvelle Austrian. And then there's all the lovely
> hybridization possibilities of fusion - twenty years ago, who'd ever
> mix butter and soy sauce over broccoli rabe?
>
> Doug