My meat ignorance, Part II
What is pastrami and why did I buy it? These questions will haunt me for the rest of my life.
I’m pretty new on the deli meat scene. Walking up to a deli counter and asking for a pre-determined weight of something is still a weird experience in my book. I decided it was time to veer from the safe and narrow turkey path. No, not to smoked turkey, but to…. pastrami?!
It looked like a real meat’s meat. Ya know? But it wins the award for meat that’s actual deliciousness is inversely proportional to how delicious it appears. It looks really delicious. Need I say more, math majors?
I still don’t really understand what it is. I decided it must be cut from the least delicious part of the animal. (the shoulder?) Dictionary.com says it’s “a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.” That sounds exactly how I like my women. And my meat.
But I guess in life we just don’t know what we want.
I’m pretty new on the deli meat scene. Walking up to a deli counter and asking for a pre-determined weight of something is still a weird experience in my book. I decided it was time to veer from the safe and narrow turkey path. No, not to smoked turkey, but to…. pastrami?!
It looked like a real meat’s meat. Ya know? But it wins the award for meat that’s actual deliciousness is inversely proportional to how delicious it appears. It looks really delicious. Need I say more, math majors?
I still don’t really understand what it is. I decided it must be cut from the least delicious part of the animal. (the shoulder?) Dictionary.com says it’s “a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.” That sounds exactly how I like my women. And my meat.
But I guess in life we just don’t know what we want.
Labels: meat
posted by Joanna at
6:46 PM
3 Comments:
You really oughta take a cruise to corned beef town. It's a rich man's pastrami and its not really what it sounds like...there's no corn.
I'm familiar with corned beef. I'm going back to turkey this week after the pastrami misfire.
In related news, you could have called this series "meatnorance."
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