Martha Stewart’s Lobster-Rooster Hybrid Is a Actual $250 Dish

In some way, she’s completed it once more. Martha Stewart set the web ablaze this week by the use of a chilling photograph posted blithely to her private Instagram. The photograph, which has practically 30,000 likes and 1000’s of horrified feedback, exhibits a dish from an obvious meal at New York Metropolis’s Café Boulud: On a picket serving board, strewn with ornamental shells and strands of seaweed, sits a rooster that has someway, by darkish magic or culinary masterminding, merged with a lobster.

The rooster itself would look unremarkable, had been it not for the lobster head poking out from its breast bone, claws that look like connected to the wings, and, maybe most disconcertingly, a lobster’s tail rising from the hole cavity on the again, curling as much as meet the rooster’s thighs. The impact is one thing that appears like an evolutionary accident or what would occur if a mad scientist had a bit additional time on his arms.

Because it seems, the dish is none of these issues. Although Martha innocently captions it as “roast rooster and lobster,” it’s, the truth is, the “poularde homardine, sauce nantua” at Café Boulud. It is listed on the restaurant’s Maison Barnes menu, which is described as “French conventional delicacies, with luxurious objects” on its web site. A word suggests the poularde homardine is massive sufficient for 3 folks, could take as much as an hour to organize, and prices $250. (Café Boulud hasn’t responded to questions for remark.)

The lineage of the poularde homardine is murky. A poularde is a rooster that is been aged 120 days and fed a fatty eating regimen, typically seen in French high-quality delicacies, and homardine refers to a lobster sauce. A lone Instagram put up from 2018 from Alain Passard, the French chef of three Michelin-starred L’Arpege in Paris, exhibits one thing comparable—a roasted rooster reclining on a plate, a lobster head and claws rising from the rear cavity, as if the rooster had been within the midst of giving beginning to the lobster. It’s captioned, merely, “poularde homardine.” Passard’s plating is not fairly the identical as Café Boulud’s, however the thought course of little question was: What if we shove a lobster inside a rooster.

Because it at all times does, the web got here to my rescue in the long run. As govt chef Romain Paumier defined to Slate, the dish “is a traditional, nevertheless it’s often made with crayfish.” The recipe, he says, makes use of each a part of the lobster, nevertheless it was Paumier’s personal inventive aptitude that led to the distinctive plating—there’s technically no motive this dish ought to look so monster-like. The dish is actually the French-est surf and turf possible: The rooster is cooked with the lobster head to infuse its briney taste into the chook, after which the top is squeezed right into a sauce used for the bottom of a lobster bisque. The lobster tail—you recognize, that factor poking out of the again of the rooster?—is just poached and completed with butter. Straightforward! Easy! No fuss eating! A gloriously terrifying second in the French culinary wave that we by no means requested for.

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