An Elitist Thanksgiving

by Emily Matchar, Posted Nov 22nd 2008 @ 7:00PM

So you can cook a ten-course dinner for twelve with one hand behind your back. You're famous among your friends for your deconstructed "sweet potato" foam with marshmallow-scented air. You've crossbred your own heirloom turkey. What's left to do when Thanksgiving rolls around but to sneer and have an ironic Big Mac while watching the latest remastered Godard from the Criterion Collection.

Perhaps then you should take a look at Endless Simmer's Elitist Thanksgiving. Their menu begins with a cheese course with a cheese so rare you can't even read about it in English. Then on to capon, the precious, coddled castrati brother of the chicken. Pair that with an ethical fois gras, from the liver of geese that have gorged themselves into liver disease with no urging from man. Finish with sweet potato souffle and cocktails made with $6,000 liquour and passionfruit syrup, and perhaps Thanksgiving can be amusing once again.

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