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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Now THAT'S a meal! I wish I could start every dinner with a couple Johnny Walker Blue Labels and finish it with a magnum of Cristal. Good lord.

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Dinner Tonight: Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheddar

I didn't think broccoli and cheddar on a baked potato was such a stretch, I've seen it all over the place. nothing that really requires "taking a chance" on...

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

Doesn't tahini have loads and loads of fat? Like a Halvah bar- sesame seeds have lots of oil. Just a little bit of tahini and olive oil go into hummus, which makes it a lot less fattening than straight tahini.

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Video: Mr. Bean Makes a Sandwich

AH! This is one of my favorite sketches of all time. Glad it made it to the site! If only Monty Python had some food-related comedy...

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From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Now THAT'S a meal! I wish I could start every dinner with a couple Johnny Walker Blue Labels and finish it with a magnum of Cristal. Good lord.

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheddar

I didn't think broccoli and cheddar on a baked potato was such a stretch, I've seen it all over the place. nothing that really requires "taking a chance" on...

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

Doesn't tahini have loads and loads of fat? Like a Halvah bar- sesame seeds have lots of oil. Just a little bit of tahini and olive oil go into hummus, which makes it a lot less fattening than straight tahini.

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Video: Mr. Bean Makes a Sandwich

AH! This is one of my favorite sketches of all time. Glad it made it to the site! If only Monty Python had some food-related comedy...

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The Nasty Bits: Crisp Fried Pig's Ears

Hear Hear. I'm sure there were plenty of readers (myself included) who looked at that pig's head are were a little grossed out by it. We shouldn't be made to feel like lesser foodies or that there's something wrong with us because of that.

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WTF was that Good Eats last night?

Yeah the "behind the scenes" episode was far far batter, and more in-line with the Good Eats aesthtetic.

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Ah man another place that now that I know about it, I have to go there, and because I have to go there, I'll gain like 5 pounds. It's a love/ hate thing.

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Good article. I did a big Oktoberfest-bier taste test last year and my favorite far and away was the Hacker-Pschorr. All the big malty notes, higher alcohol, and coppery color you want in an Octoberfest, and super easy-drinking. If only a couple places had it on tap this time of year... great for the Fall.

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Tomatoes Are Evil

I'm fine with cooked tomatoes, even finely chopped raw ones like in salsa or bruschetta, but a sliced tomato in a salad or sandwich or burger.. no thanks. Just something about the texture and acidity (maybe mixed with lettuce?).. I've never liked it and I've had some very high quality tomatoes (I'm from Jersey).

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Wtf?! Are all Nello's dishes laced with gold??? I can't believe people are stupid enough to pay those ridiculously high prices...

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

This wasn't a meal; it was a money laundering operation.

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@Peensez: I guarantee you that Nello's didn't use $2-a-box pasta for the pasta specials.

I, too, am amused by all the outrage. A lot of people made a lot of money off this guy: isn't that a good thing?

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

2 chunks of parmesan: $28
Not having to tolerate the company of the poor: priceless

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@Nathan Teager: Haha, this made me smile. You're right. Give us your poor, your tired...and the occasional hungry millionaire.

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Why is everyone mad. He added about $50,000 to the US's economy. Remember that he is from Russia and deals in rubles. Now his rubles have become dollars. Go USA!

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I find the outrage and disgust...odd. Why is it our business to judge what he does with his own money? @queenbleu, why should you detest the rich? He spent a lot on lunch - so what? At least he was more generous than he had to be with his server. Why all the anger? We have no way of knowing how he uses his money on a regular basis - nor is it our business. He might be just as lavish in his giving to charity for all we know.
Lighten up, people.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@DCLSweetspot: Well, by that logic, why do we do a percentage for different dishes as well? It takes the same effort to bring out a plate that costs $20 as a plate that costs $8. We still do a percentage in those cases. Perhaps we should just give tips of a set fee rather than a variable percentage.

@sheba0915: a little strange that they didn't drink any vodka though.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I took my sweetie out for a lovely Thai meal on Sunday, no wine or beer and I had a diet cola. I didn't order appetizers because I was trying to keep the bill reasonable and it still came out to about $28 with tax and tip.

We each ordered combinations that included our dish of choise, veggie pad thai and steam rice. I was pretty satisfied!

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

It's always those little extras that add up, I guess.

Or the f*king crazy-ass wine!

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Dinner Tonight: Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheddar

I think you should add a fried egg on top. That would totally put it over the top. And also be super innovative. :P

It amazes me that people expect you guys to come up with completely new dishes for this column all the time.

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Dinner Tonight: Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheddar

Baked potatoes with cheese sauce, broccoli, and ham cubes were a standard weeknight dinner in my house growing up. Mmmm...

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@sanhedrin: It was a table full of Russians. Therefore, the amount of alcohol consumed was not particularly outrageous.

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

He certainly can use his money however he wishes, but it doesn't stop me from finding this disgusting. And I'm not envious at all.

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

@lebcook - re: taratoor, I'd totally forgotten about that name, but now that you mention it, sounds familiar. Just goes to show you how confusing food names can be. I've learned not to be absolutist about this stuff, because it can vary so wildly from place to place.

My current favorite example: in Mexico, chilaquiles are usually fried tortilla strips in a tomatillo sauce, while in the U.S. they are often scrambled eggs and tortilla strips. Except those are more often called migas. But then in Spain, migas are more typically day-old bread and meat!

(I know, someone is going to be writing in with a different version of those facts in just a second! Lay it on me :))

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

I'm not @Hassouni, but the prepared sauce above basically is a combo of tahini paste, garlic, lemon and sometimes yogurt. The "prepared sauce" often has another name in Lebanese/Arab cuisine - "taratoor". It's usually eaten as a dip with fish or a topping in meat shawarma (but not chicken, which is usually served with a straight up garlic paste).

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

@Hassouni Good to know; so how would you distinguish between the plain sesame paste and the prepared sauce described above? Is it just from conversational context or is there a separate term?

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I don't see why there are so many people upset by this. Sure, we don't have money like this guy, so we can't indulge like he does; for that I am either jealous or envious, can't figure which one. I can't say I am disgusted by it though. It's his money, he could flush it down the toilet if he wanted, and essentially he just did, but again, it is his money. Everyone knows restaurants charge ridiculous mark-ups on alcohol, particularly wine and Nello's is no exception. Hell, I drink wine that is $5 a bottle from my local liquor store and have seen it on menus for $8 a glass!! Okay, I'm jealous and envious and it seems most of you are too.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

The $25,000 for 5 bottles of wine or $100 truffle carpaccios don't seem quite as ridiculous to me as the $12 bottle of water, $9 cappucinos, $55 milanesa, $14 parmesan chunks, or $39 spaghetti. I suppose it's either because I'm not as familiar in the market for enormous truffles and expensive vintages of wine, or because the markup on the luxury items may be a larger dollar value, but a smaller percentage of the cost of those items.

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Seriously Meatless: Tahina

As a native Arabic speaker, I'd just like to point out that tahini and tahina are the same thing. Tahini is merely the pronunciation in the Lebanese dialect, Tahina is how most other Arabs would pronounce it. They're both written the same way, if anyone can read Arabic: طحينة

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Unfortunately, this makes me detest the rich even more than I did before.
I'm sure the alcohol was used as a 'lubricant' if this was a business meal. I guess if your are a Russian oligarch, then you don't seem to mind spending a year's salary (not mine!) on one little ol' luncheon. This just shows that the excess of the classes is still alive and well and living in the food industry as much as Wall Street.

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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Wow, the final bill ($52,221.09) came out to the price of a home in some cities...YIKES.

Oh well, it's all relative, I suppose.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

How much?!

If I was stupidly rich I might treat my friends and family to a stupidly expensive meal. But only one!

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