The $1,000 omelet? Just how good can eggs taste?THIS morning, I will do something I always swear I will never do again: eat brunch in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . What's that? Why? Sorry. I can't hear you. I'm in the back of a line that spills down Columbus Avenue. This is the line for people who have reservations. People who don't just get laughed at, then splashed by a bus. But wait. We're only getting started. And speaking of started, how about those appetizers? Appetizers? For brunch? Didn't brunch used to mean that you could have eggs and French toast in the same meal? Or maybe Froot Loops “Fruit Loops” redirects here. For other uses, see Fruit Loops (disambiguation). Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. and a piece of chicken? That's how I defined brunch. Today it means "jamming garlic shrimps with white corn fritters." Today it means "codfish seasoned with onion, scallions and three peppers, served with callallo and fried dumplings." Today it means "corn crusted calamari cracklins with chipotle chi·pot·le n. A ripe jalapeño pepper that has been dried and smoked for use in cooking. [American Spanish, from Nahuatl xipotli.] Noun 1. and avocado cremas." There is so much wrong with that. For one thing, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what a "cracklin" is. I know "Cracklin' Rosie," but that was a Neil Diamond song, and come to think of it, I never understood that. Or Neil Diamond. You wouldn't really call a woman "cracklin'," would you? Much less a calamari. I also have no idea what an "avocado crema" is. It doesn't sound like breakfast. And while I have read the word "chipotle" before, to me it is sort of like "fennel fennel, common name for several perennial herbs, genus Foeniculum vulgare of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), related to dill. The strawlike foliage and the seeds are licorice-scented and are used (especially in Italian cooking) for flavoring. ." You say, "Oh, yeah, yeah ... uh, what is that again?" A dictionary is not how you should start your Sunday morning. All I really wanted was a place that served eggs and pancakes and maybe a waffle See WAFL. . Someone recommended Norma's, in Le Parker Meridien Hotel, because "'it specializes in breakfast." I figured, great, that would eliminate the codfish. And sure enough, when I looked into it, Norma's did indeed specialize in things like omelets. With caviar. And lobster. In fact, Norma's, we believe, has broken the record for world's most expensive omelet. It costs $1,000. It contains an entire lobster, 10 ounces of really expensive caviar, and, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , some eggs, although you probably can order it without the eggs, as long as you have the thousand bucks. I asked the manager just how many people had ordered the $1,000 omelet and he said, "Three. And they were all journalists." Mitch Albom is the author of the bestsellers "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and "Tuesdays With Morrie." |
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