Last week on Top Chef, contestants faced a slithery challenge: peel and fillet an eel. To prepare eel you must buy them live and kill them right before cooking, because their flesh deteriorates rapidly. But these eels were still moving!
Guest chef and judge Eric Ripert assured the contestants that the eels were already dead, but admitted that they would continue to squirm for hours.
Eel is more popular in Europe and Asia than in the United States, where you don't often find it on a menu. In France, chefs will braise eel with red wine and garlic. In Japan, it's frequently glazed with miso and grilled. In Scandinavia and Germany, eel is smoked and served with rye bread. Why accompany eels with such strong flavors? Because, Ripert revealed, "they taste like mud."
Guest chef and judge Eric Ripert assured the contestants that the eels were already dead, but admitted that they would continue to squirm for hours.
Eel is more popular in Europe and Asia than in the United States, where you don't often find it on a menu. In France, chefs will braise eel with red wine and garlic. In Japan, it's frequently glazed with miso and grilled. In Scandinavia and Germany, eel is smoked and served with rye bread. Why accompany eels with such strong flavors? Because, Ripert revealed, "they taste like mud."
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.
Eel tastes of, surprisingly enough,EEL!
Danish St Stephens day a smoked eel is a great centre piece to the table.
I used to live around the corner from French's Eel and pie house in Hackney london , and hile I never cared for the cockney fare of Jellied Eels Pie n Liquor , one thing I can say is that they, nor the Danish eel, tasted of MUD.
In Japan, its not glazed with miso, in fact, I dont think i've had eel glazed with miso in my life.
and, I don't think unagi sauce is not made out of miso:
http://www.sushiencyclopedia.com/sushi_sauce_recipes/unagi_sauce_recipe.html
is what I wanted to say
Marisa Tomei is also an Oscar-winning actress. Being celebrated by colleagues and being a dullard are not mutually exclusive.