“The best ingredients make the best pie!”
As a former classic French chef, I can say this is a paramount truth.
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Making Boeuf a la mode right now!
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Never would have guessed beef and ice cream go together…
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Since this recipes has roots to the 17th Century, I suppose I should lookup when ice cream was invented.
I have had foie gras ice cream served with a pork roast. It was indescribably good.
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I do like french fries with vanilla ice cream (french fries has to be hot though)…
then there’s a dab of mayo in my chili (which my wife freaks out about)…
half and half in my cola…
pretty much all Chef Boyardee products straight out of the can (once you heat it up, it loses something but I can’t figure out what it is)…
Being originally from Hawaii, SPAAAAAAAAMMMMMI!!! with just about ANYTHING! And NOT the wimpy “less salt” stuff. If you’re going to eat Spam, you have to understand the consequences of your decisions.
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I haven’t made that in years. I’ve made it at home quite a bit, and only made it at the restaurant occasionally. I should probably stop now, as my posts may be deemed “off topic.”
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Chaîne des Rôtisseurs dinners…the best of the best ! 
Are you a member? I’ve always wondered what one of their events were like.
I’ve looked at our local chapter several times over the years. The event calendar is usually very slim with few events.
Not as an actual member, but as a member of the kitchen brigade prepping, cooking and turning them out. Part of my journey as a chef when starting out as a commis in fine dining hotel and restaurant kitchens way back when “nouvelle cuisine” was all the rage and Martha Stewart had published only one book. 
At one dinner, one of the guest chefs brought 20# of foie gras to be utilized as one of the opening courses. Yeah, to say the dinners were extravagant is an understatement. And the wine!!! OMG!!!
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Newport, RI was where my first official job as a Chef was. It was only a couple years after the US first lost the America’s Cup, where it had been for over a century, so the crowd was changing. The “money people” no longer flocked there during the Summers, and it was becoming an “old money” versus “new money” thing.
The long time families such as the Firestones, Vanderbilts (Doris Duke, et al.) etc. versus the “new money” people such as Martha Stewart. There’s an old beach club there where you have to be “sponsored” by a current member in order to join the club. For years, Stewart tried to join the club but no one would be her sponsor.
I met her once on a catering job I did (the families would hire chefs from the local restaurants to cook for their private parties (very lucrative). If you see the made for TV movie from years ago about her, it really is an accurate portrait of what she was like.
Conversely, I briefly met Andrew Firestone long before he was old enough to be on the Bachelor, and considering his background, he was very nice and humble kid.
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Nice review of the FR30s at the Montreal HiFi Show.
Hopefully next year CoViD will be over and we can actually feel safe attending the shows in person. It’d be fun being at the show (as opposed to flying in, and setting up the speaker for our distributor who ran the actual show).
That said, this was sure a nice video Jay posted.
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Great review. Would not expect less from PS Audio. Unfortunately Paul, CoVid will never be over. I hope it’s persistence will not limit the masses from auditioning the FR30.
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You’re correct CoViD (like the flu) is here to stay. It’s now part of the human experience. That said, I don’t not go to the shows for fear of catching the flu. I get vaccinated, I do what I can, and if I get it I get it.
Currently, more people die of CoViD in a week than flu takes out folks in a year (or something close to that figure).
Those odds are too great for me.
Maybe a better way to put it is that once enough people are vaccinated or herd immunity is strong enough or whatever the hell happens that puts CoViD back to killing thousands a year (rather than a day), then I shall be at the shows. Until then, it’s not smart (IMHO).
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I’ve come to appreciate Jay’s perspective.
If this goes the way of past virus borne pandemics, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates, it will HOPEFULLY mutate itself to something more manageable (immunity wise), but it can take many years (as in past pandemics).
You can see this phenomenon playing out with Omicron and the BA2 variant.
Many years ago, H5N1 (Avian flu) made the jump to humans and everyone freaked out because in birds, it is HIGHLY contagious (it recently broke out in the US, and so far they’ve had to cull MILLIONS of chickens because of it).
The big problem with H5N1 - human mortality was about 60% (ie. 3 out of 5 people that got it died).
LUCKILY, it ended up mutating itself into oblivion (as far as human infections).
The big pandemic concern right now is this.
Viruses mutate ALL the time - they don’t stop mutating. Viruses also constantly exchange DNA with other viruses - like a big *rgy.
H1N1 (swine flu) IS highly contagious for humans - close to SARS-CoV-2 (but not quite), BUT has a low mortality rate similar to most flu strains.
The worry is that at some point, they will both infect a common host (such as one individual) and exchange DNA. If that happens, there is a potential that the “offspring” will have the high mortality rate of H5N1 and the contagiousness of H1N1. If that is the case, the past two years will look like a sniffle in comparison.
Debbie Downer signing out.
Edit: I should also clarify that there are a lot of things that come in to play with Omicron/BA2. Although the PERCEPTION appears to be somewhat weaker (fewer hospitalization/deaths), and it IS more contagious, other things come into play, such as vaccination rates, the fact that in the US, so many people have had prior infections, etc. etc. Although it’s pretty well recognized that both Omicron and BA2 are different enough from the past that many people get infected/sick/etc. from Omicron and BA2 even though they’ve been vaccinated/infected with a prior strain (immunity isn’t guaranteed in any case any way), both vaccination and prior infections appear to at least SOME immunity - enough that serious illness/hospitalization/death is avoided. My step-daughter got infected twice - in the span of about 3 weeks. Based on her symptoms even her doc agrees that she likely contracted Omicron THEN an older strain (likely Delta) (her samples were never DNA tested).
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Glad to read that I am not the only person with this resolve.
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My wife and I, boosted and vaccinated, had Omicron over that 2 weeks, along with some friends who were here. I hate to say, it was just like a head cold that drags on for 10-14 days until full recovery. Know many other people with it, exact same symptoms or none at all. The worst, I missed an opening night at Covent Garden, thankfully a William Forsyth show tomorrow.
Was that a review? It was a bit of incoherent rambling to me, but positive all the same! Well done all.
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There’s so many studies coming out concerning the ramifications to health post-COVID. Here’s one that has a good bit of pedigree that doesn’t bode well:
…And now back to our normally scheduled lust filled programming regarding the FR30’s.
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Infect me with that FR30 sound!!!
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