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Sep. 6th, 2011 07:58 amSo, tonight for dinner, we went to Tierra Sur. We were still owed a dinner for MW and Panda's silver anniversary, plus MWs birthday was Saturday, plus JJ's in on the 17th, plus I'm starting grad school, so we wanted to celebrate. When we want to celebrate in a very big way, we go there.
First, some background information:
For reasons that I have always considered entirely spurious, the crazy black-hatter Jews don't consider wine Kosher by definition, like sane people. (For those of us keeping track: it's a fruit by-product which involves no animal products at all.) The rabbis prohibit the consumption of wine which was produced as a sacrament for another religion, but at no point in history would this ever have been the majority of wine being produced. Basically, they don't want the non-Jew cooties getting on them. Therefore, the establishment of such fine Kosher wineries and Mogen David and Manischewitz, which tastes at best like alcoholic cough syrup.
And then there is the Baron de Herzog winery, which produces actual wine. It is the Kosher winery. In fact when Panda needs to say Yahrzeit (pronounced your-tzite; it's a kind of memorial prayer said on, for example, the anniversary of one's parents' deaths), he goes over there because they have enough people for a minyan (minimum of ten adult males required tosay certain prayers, such as the Yahrzeit). Which they have on the wine cellar floor, surrounded by aging wine in great barrels . . .
Anyway. The is a restaurant at the winery, and this is Tierra Sur. That website will tell you about their locally-sourced ingredients, and their fantastic chefs, and their award-winning food. It will not, however, tell you the thing that makes this restaurant the So-Cal destination for visiting Jews: everything at the restaurant is Kosher.
I ate my first venison there, and do you know how hard it is to get Kosher venison? I've also had duck there, and steak, and lamb. It's never less than awe-inspiring, and that's not even starting on the desserts. Considering that the next closest place to get Kosher food is two towns over and the next place to get decent Kosher food is and hour and a half away in Los Angeles, having our very own Kosher gourmet here is amazing.
If you're ever in the area, and have a huge chunk of money to drop on a meal (I said it was good, not it was cheap), call me. We can do lunch.
First, some background information:
For reasons that I have always considered entirely spurious, the crazy black-hatter Jews don't consider wine Kosher by definition, like sane people. (For those of us keeping track: it's a fruit by-product which involves no animal products at all.) The rabbis prohibit the consumption of wine which was produced as a sacrament for another religion, but at no point in history would this ever have been the majority of wine being produced. Basically, they don't want the non-Jew cooties getting on them. Therefore, the establishment of such fine Kosher wineries and Mogen David and Manischewitz, which tastes at best like alcoholic cough syrup.
And then there is the Baron de Herzog winery, which produces actual wine. It is the Kosher winery. In fact when Panda needs to say Yahrzeit (pronounced your-tzite; it's a kind of memorial prayer said on, for example, the anniversary of one's parents' deaths), he goes over there because they have enough people for a minyan (minimum of ten adult males required tosay certain prayers, such as the Yahrzeit). Which they have on the wine cellar floor, surrounded by aging wine in great barrels . . .
Anyway. The is a restaurant at the winery, and this is Tierra Sur. That website will tell you about their locally-sourced ingredients, and their fantastic chefs, and their award-winning food. It will not, however, tell you the thing that makes this restaurant the So-Cal destination for visiting Jews: everything at the restaurant is Kosher.
I ate my first venison there, and do you know how hard it is to get Kosher venison? I've also had duck there, and steak, and lamb. It's never less than awe-inspiring, and that's not even starting on the desserts. Considering that the next closest place to get Kosher food is two towns over and the next place to get decent Kosher food is and hour and a half away in Los Angeles, having our very own Kosher gourmet here is amazing.
If you're ever in the area, and have a huge chunk of money to drop on a meal (I said it was good, not it was cheap), call me. We can do lunch.
