Gastronomic Delights

September 18, 2006 1:38 AM

What are your recommendations for five things to eat before you die?
posted by johnny7 to Food & Drink (12 answers total)

A soft-boiled egg, from a chicken in your own back garden.
Home-made wholemeal bread, fresh from the oven, slathered with salty butter.
Lobster. With someone you love.
Hummus.
Steak frites and a green salad with vinaigrette.

OK, it's not even 10am here and I'm drooling. But thanks, johnny 7, those lists on the link are inspiring!
posted by dowcrag at 1:45 AM on September 18, 2006

carrots, tomatoes, spinach (sans e.coli), cauliflower, broccholi.
Since we're probably going to die from not having had enough of these things.
posted by jak68 at 1:58 AM on September 18, 2006

- deep fried brie
- poutine
- kangaroo
- canadian smoked salmon
- chateaubriand/filet mignon
posted by wilde at 2:04 AM on September 18, 2006

here are 5. they are probably not my top 5. I think about food a lot and could probably come up with another 5 tomorrow:

samoan crab (female, for the eggs)
*good/fresh* mirugai/geoduck sashimi
truffle oil mashed potatoes
cardamom ice cream
fresh kumu fish (parupeneus porphyreus)
posted by juv3nal at 2:07 AM on September 18, 2006

Indian pizza from Zante's in San Francisco.
posted by RoseovSharon at 2:38 AM on September 18, 2006

In no particular order, except #5:
1. Ripe organic cherry tomato off the vine (no rinsing, inhale deeply first, then pop whole into waiting maw)
2. Garlic H&H bagel (must be warm from the water bath, no spread)
3. Mixed fresh-picked berries with cream (if possible, eaten in Finland in midsummer, and including cloudberries)
4. Homemade ice cream, licked from the paddle of a hand-cranked ice cream freezer (preferably peaches-and-heavy-cream flavor)
5. Very last dish: takifugu (liver and all)
posted by rob511 at 3:04 AM on September 18, 2006

*a good Scottish haggis
*a high quality Spanish chorizo with bread and olives
*a Vietnamese pho soup with beef shin bought from a street vendor in Saigon
*pizza bought in a local pizzeria Spaccanapoli in Naples
*an organic, free-range chicken cooked simply with lemon and butter

I know its not always possible to get to the far flung places but if you get there then these are essentials. I feel very hungry just thinking about these!
posted by ClanvidHorse at 3:27 AM on September 18, 2006

This may count as a whole lot more than five things, but the omakase at Morimoto is a life-changing experience.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:48 AM on September 18, 2006

Culatello, fresh funghi porcini, handmade anolini, unpasteurized unprocessed full-fat fresh raw milk, Demel's Sachertorte
posted by matteo at 4:08 AM on September 18, 2006

Pizza from Da Michaela's in Naples (where pizza was born)
Truffle risotto
Deep-fried camembert
Turducken (that you made yourself)
Hot fresh chips with loads of salt and malt vinegar, wrapped in newspaper by a London chippie
posted by web-goddess at 4:17 AM on September 18, 2006

Andouillette. From a proper french bistro cafe, like L'ami Pierre. First time I ordered this in Paris, the waiter gave me a proper interrogation to determine whether, as a foreigner, I knew what I was letting myself in for.

Freshly baked bread with good salty butter and proper homemade jam - rasperry, for me, but I think it's the sweet and salty combination that does it, along with the slight warmness of the bread...

A tagine in Morrocco: lamb and apricot, or prune, but a tagine.

Tom Kha Kai in Thailand (spicy chicken + coconut soup).

Masala Dhosa (south indian vegetarian pancakes). Drummond St. in London (by Euston station) has a number of places that do this - my favourite is the one on the left with rows of wooden tables and benches. Can't remember it's name.
posted by handee at 4:21 AM on September 18, 2006

Carne asada burrito from a taqueria in Phoenix
Fish tacos
Bone-in strip steak or ribeye, medium-rare with sauteed mushrooms
Onion bagel with cream cheese from Bagel Bob's in NYC
Foie gras
posted by mullacc at 4:24 AM on September 18, 2006