http://ozersky.tv Josh Ozersky's Daily Food Show Thu, 17 May 2012 14:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://ozersky.tv/about/comment-page-1/#comment-77222 Breakfast with Josh Ozersky | Columbus Food Adventures Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:12:07 +0000 http://ozersky.local/wp/?page_id=2#comment-77222 [...] Josh Ozersky is a meat man. Not meat and potatoes, just meat. The kind of guy that ‘meat lovers’ pizzas were invented for. But pizza isn’t Josh’s thing. Burgers are. He’s the author of The Hamburger: a History  and he was in town for a burger demo at the Best of Fall home show. I asked him if he ever got sick of burgers. The answer was a categorical ‘no’. As proof, he confessed that even though he knew that he was going to dinner at The Greenhouse Tavern the previous night for a meat-tastic feast, he still stopped at Steak ‘n Shake on the way there for a burger. All because he was in the Midwest, and Steak ‘n Shake is one of his favorites. When I asked him what makes Steak ‘n Shake so good, he averred that ‘It exemplifies everything I believe about hamburgers, it’s inspirational. It’s a single cheese burger with a slice of onion. No mayo, no lettuce, not tomato, and the patty is under 2oz. It’s minimalist, it’s pure, it’s the hamburger equivalent of figs on a plate’.Apart from Steak and Shake, I asked him what he has been enthused about recently. He talked about his dinner at the Greenhouse Tavern, and in particular the whole pigs head which brought him ‘sheer animal pleasure’ and was beautifully made and presented with a striking lacquered skin. He was almost salivating as he described extracting jowl meat from the pigs head with the ease of picking up a spoonful of gazpacho. Also notable from his dinner at the Greenhouse Tavern was the chicken fried lamb with gravy. Ozersky was full of praise for Chef Jonathan Sawyer, who he said is doing so much right. [...] [...] Josh Ozersky is a meat man. Not meat and potatoes, just meat. The kind of guy that ‘meat lovers’ pizzas were invented for. But pizza isn’t Josh’s thing. Burgers are. He’s the author of The Hamburger: a History  and he was in town for a burger demo at the Best of Fall home show. I asked him if he ever got sick of burgers. The answer was a categorical ‘no’. As proof, he confessed that even though he knew that he was going to dinner at The Greenhouse Tavern the previous night for a meat-tastic feast, he still stopped at Steak ‘n Shake on the way there for a burger. All because he was in the Midwest, and Steak ‘n Shake is one of his favorites. When I asked him what makes Steak ‘n Shake so good, he averred that ‘It exemplifies everything I believe about hamburgers, it’s inspirational. It’s a single cheese burger with a slice of onion. No mayo, no lettuce, not tomato, and the patty is under 2oz. It’s minimalist, it’s pure, it’s the hamburger equivalent of figs on a plate’.Apart from Steak and Shake, I asked him what he has been enthused about recently. He talked about his dinner at the Greenhouse Tavern, and in particular the whole pigs head which brought him ‘sheer animal pleasure’ and was beautifully made and presented with a striking lacquered skin. He was almost salivating as he described extracting jowl meat from the pigs head with the ease of picking up a spoonful of gazpacho. Also notable from his dinner at the Greenhouse Tavern was the chicken fried lamb with gravy. Ozersky was full of praise for Chef Jonathan Sawyer, who he said is doing so much right. [...]

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