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One of my first fine dining experiences was similar. A date for my wife and I paid for by my employer after a weekend ruined by an outage. I had steak tartare (
by schmichael 5y ago
One of my first fine dining experiences was similar. A date for my wife and I paid for by my employer after a weekend ruined by an outage. I had steak tartare (fixed!) for the first time. I had cognac (outside of cheap cognac in a mixed drink) for the first time. A family at a nearby table had sweaters tied around their shoulders and were literally discussing their yacht club.
As someone who grew up with public school teachers for parents and corn fields surrounding my house, it was transcendental. The staff was just as lovely as the food, and it's easily the best gift I've ever gotten from an employer.
- rory 5y agoApologies for being an internet corrector, but it's actually "tartare," from the old French belief (or perhaps joke) that the Golden Horde Tatars didn't have time to cook their meat when on the move. So they just softened it under their saddles as they rode, then ate it raw. Kind of funny that such a now-fancy food is supposed to taste as if you ate it from under a nomad's butt.