There are plenty of things to like about The Appetizer, National Post’s food blog. It serves up recipes, chef interviews (under the twee title “Under the toque”) and my favourite column (blolum?), weekly kitchen gadget reviews written by Gremolata.com’s editor, Malcolm Jolley.
I respect Alton Brown’s maxim that nothing in the kitchen (other than a fire extinguisher) should be a unitasker, but I don’t respect it enough not to spend crazy amounts of money on culinary gadgetry. Evidence of this compulsion is my full set of marrow spoons. Technically, spoons qualify as utensils and not gadgets … but given that I’m a vegetarian and not likely to put them to meaty good use anytime soon, I call ‘em gadgets. Incidentally, if you have any suggestions on alternative uses for marrow spoons, do tell.
… this joyride was what Julia Child and Edmund Hillary would have come up with if they ever got high together on mushrooms.
The point of this post has nothing to do with gadgets, though, but with an entertaining dining review just posted in The Appetizer, in which Gina Mallet described her recent experience with Dinner In The Sky, a meal “hosted at a table suspended at a height of 50 metres.” Mallet’s review gives you a good sense of the experience — as does fellow Postie’s Shinan Govani’s post — but there’s nothing quite like seeing the set-up and service in action.
