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HAVANA Tobacco: It's what's for dinner.
A team of Croatian chefs whipped up a pungent meal Thursday, infusing the flavor of the tobacco leaf synonymous with Cuba into baked stone bass filets, bread and butter, a rich demi-glace sauce, even ice cream.
The result was a tangy heat that one taster likened to ancho chili powder, and a powerful finish with all the nicotine kick of a chubby Montecristo cigar.
"Wow, buzz city!" said Gary Heathcott, a public relations worker from Little Rock, Arkansas, who also writes for Smoke magazine. "The first buzz I ever received from biting into fish."
More at http://www.shreveporttimes.com/viewart/20130306/LIVING01/303060303/Tobacco-cuisine-display-cigar-festival .
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Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)but i'm not going to say i would like it.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)Warpy
(111,274 posts)Not only gut wrenching but potentially fatal.
There's a reason people who chew spit the tobacco laden slobber out.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)I can't recall if it was Top Chef or something but I thought it was a nasty idea.