Surf and Turf
Surf and turf, or surf 'n' turf, is a main dish that is particularly popular in North American steakhouses . It consists of a combination of seafood with meat , usually the tails of American lobster or shrimp (mostly either grilled or fried ) and steak .
History of origin
The term originated on the North American Atlantic coast. The first written record was an ad from the year 1967 in the Yellow Pages of Buffalo , which the restaurant Michael's House of Steaks switched. Jane and Michael Stern stated that it was under this name that it was served at the SkyCity restaurant (in the Space Needle in Seattle ) during the 1962 World's Fair . In Stern's Encyclopedia of bad taste (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) is surf and turf as the epitome of culinary kitsch represented: "it comes [...], the hedonistic maximize extravagance" by the two most expensive dishes on the menu are combined; that is, the dish is not ordered for reasons of taste, but for vulgar self-expression.
distribution
The dish is common in North America. The American restaurant chain Steak and Ale carried it under the name Steak and Tail .
In Australia , especially on the east coast in the area of the Great Barrier Reef, it is known as Reef and beef or Reef meets beef as a steak with a wide variety of seafood as a side dish, popular and usually relatively inexpensive.
It is also offered in some pubs in the UK .
literature
- Corby Kummer et al .: 1,001 Foods to Die For. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-740-77043-8 , p. 348.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ("the point [...] is to maximize hedonistic extravagance")