Top Chef, ever on the forefront of ingenuitive cuisine, has churned out it's share of chefs with a flair for the dramatic.
The latest newsmaker: Ilan Hall, Top Chef's season 2 winner. In a recent article for the LA Jewish Journal, Hall describes his most recent and perhaps most controversial culinary creation. It might just make your bubbe plotz.
At his LA restaurant, The Gorbals, Hall has been serving up bacon-wrapped matzah balls with horseradish mayonnaise.
That's right. Matzah balls. Bacon. Horseradish mayonnaise. There's so much wrong there, could it possibly be right?
For those of you familiar with this blog, I'm far from kosher. If my extollment of Bistrot du Coin's Moules Bretonnes doesn't prove that, I don't know what will. And yet, something about Hall's dish makes me squirm a bit. It just doesn't seem...natural.
What are your thoughts?
3 comments:
um, wow. those sound particularly amazing.
a friend used to eat Ham and Cheese on Matzah... I think this falls into the same category.
I would absolutely eat a bacon-wrapped matzah ball. Bacon makes everything better.
As far as the "sacrilege" bit goes, I'm reminded of something my grandparents once told me: Someone they knew in Chicago, in the '50s, declared that bacon had to be kosher. Apparently the justification went something like "How can you raise children without eggs and bacon?"
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