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US: I’d like dinner without the sprinkle of cannabis, please

Celia Walden

The Telepgraph

Monday 07 May 2012

People are more relaxed about marijuana in Los Angeles, but roast monkfish with cannabis purée? No thanks.

In the 1990s it was coriander, a popular little herb that smells and tastes like cheap hand lotion. The Noughties (thanks to Jamie Oliver) were all about parsley, sage and thyme. Then basil made a comeback (impossible to make an insalata tricolore without it) alongside cumin – the social climber's favourite. Out here in LA, there's a new herb in the kitchen: cannabis.

Angelenos are more relaxed about cannabis than we are. Come to think of it, they're more relaxed about most things – possibly because of the cannabis. Go to your doctor with sleep problems, muscular pains, headaches or anxiety, and he'll give you a prescription for cannabis that you can cash in at the chemist. Consequently, rather than being the preserve of deadbeats and Hunter S Thompson-idolising adolescents, cannabis is smoked liberally by everyone, from blue-collar workers to agents and film stars. Still, the concept – devised by LA-based celebrity chef Laurent Quenioux – of sprinkling a little stardust over one's dinner is new enough to be considered subversive. Because I'm not talking space cakes and marijuana tea here: I'm talking roast monkfish with cannabis purée, baked potato with cannabis-infused butter and panna cotta served with cannabis-coconut oil. Of course, those trying it at home might be more inclined to stick a sprig on their roast chicken.

According to the LA Times, it's "less about intoxication than about discovering how the flavours of the herb played with more traditional herbs" and amounts are adjusted "to render the effects of the meal essentially suggestive rather than psychotropic". Even so, one who has tried what they're calling "The Herb Dinner" extends the same advice as any etiquette expert: "Don't eat the garnish."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9250313/Id-like-dinner-without-the-sprinkle-of-cannabis-please.html

 

 

 

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