Dear Greg, in regards to this message to Phil Marlowe,.

 >  Be careful if you are using a larger quantity: it may not need much
more    > time if the piece of meat is longer.


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 > Remove the piece of meat to a hot plate.


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 > 'It is grey... it isn't beautiful... I carry it to the table... I
admit to   > feeling some emotion... What will this morsel of meat
offer? Come on...      > courage.'


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 > (The drama of this is because it's Radio Cuisine, it's a performance.


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 > Pomiane is pretending it's all happening even as his audience listens.)


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 > 'I take a fork and a very sharp knife.


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 > I prick, I cut.


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 > Admirable spectacle!


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 > The cut meat is red; the blood spurts, it runs, it spreads on the plate.


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 > Never has such a roast given me such a result.'


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 > He's right.


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 > It's exactly like that.


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 > The guests are dubious.


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 > So are you.


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 > It's an ugly, grey and bulgy object that you're offering.


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 > You could of course cut it in the kitchen, but then you'd lose the
contrast  > effect, the ugly-duckling-into-swan transformation.


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 > Which is certainly most spectacular.


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 > The meat is rare, meltingly tender.


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 > And the water it's cooked in remains perfectly clear, with a few
colourless  > globules of fat on the surface.


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 > Not one drop of the meat's juices escapes.


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 > Pomiane serves only salt, watercress, bread and red wine with it.


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 > I'd offer several mustards, maybe some horseradish.


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 > The asparagus...


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 > I can't have a vinaigrette with them as well as artichokes; we'll
have to    > make do with the meat's red juice.


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 > Or a bit of butter.


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 > You don't of course have to indulge in all the theatre.


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 > This is an excellent way to cook beef for serving cold; seeing it
ready      > sliced on a plate, nobody would suspect it was
boiled."


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 > "EAT MY WORDS" by Marion Halligan, (c) 1990.


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 > Collins/Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia, ISBN 0 207 16823
7 The      > reference is to a recipe by Eduard de Pomiane, but she does
not tell us      > which of his books it was in.


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 > Typed by Greg Mayman, March 1999. Later tested - yes, it's exactly as
       > described!


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 > GM. MMMMM From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
... Let   > them that don't want none have memories of not getting any


Fair enough,.

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