I have enjoyed now for the second time in a week the most delicious breakfast: Eggs and Bacon.
Now hold a second, Rabbi, bacon is trief! Or so I thought.
Jewlicious Festival veteran, and supervisor of culinary arts at the Festival’s VIP wine tasting, Chaim Davids, delivered to me as a house warming gift a package of his home-made Lamb Bacon. LAMB BACON!
Davids is the chef behind The Kitchen Table in Mountain View, CA:
The Kitchen Table serves California Artisinal cuisine with a twist: We are the only certified glatt Kosher restaurant in northern California. We dairy-free and peanut-free, and use only the freshest ingredients. All breads are baked on premises, and the pastrami and corned beef are cured and smoked in-house.
I have not made the pilgrimage to TKT, but those who have – including many of the guests I met at Herzog Wine Cellar’s Tierra Sur Resturant for the Lorne Mackillop & Tomintoul Whisky Dinner last week – rave in superlatives about TKT.
I came across a quote by Anthony Bourdain: “If you want to make people happy, give them bacon.” I get it now. The umami alone is enough to beg for more.
Thank you Chaim Davids, thank you TKT, thank you Rachel. Good Shabbos.
Jack
11/20/2009
Sounds kind of interesting, intriguing even.
Ben-David
11/21/2009
The photo looks gross.
No meat is supposed to look grey – especially bacon.
What is that gelatinous coating?
Lamb bacon p’tcha? Eeewwwwwww.
Speaking as a former treif eater – pastrami/salami in a frying pan comes very very close – and the soy stuff is not bad either.
Tom Morrissey
11/22/2009
And I’ve got some beef lobster and soy shrimp to sell you, too.
l
12/8/2009
ive been to TKT and it is beyond delicious, can’t wait to go back! the smell of pork bacon makes me ill, but i would love to try some lamb bacon…hadn’t really thought of it before.