Eat and Let Die.

Just got back from a trip to Sin City, which included some quality gluttony in two of the finest old skool eateries on any strip you can name anywhere in this fine land.
 
Namely The Golden Steer, which is worthy of a blog of its own for sheer steak-infused Sinatra style manly goodness. Peep some of its leather and meat action at http://golden.snapsweb.com.
 
And The Peppermill Restaurant and Fireside Lounge, which I visited twice: once at night for a romantic cocktail with my wife in front of a roaring blight blue flaming lake, and a second time in the light of day for my last meal in Vegas, which was a plate, nay a tray, heaped with crispy hash browns, 3 eggs sunny side up, and bacon - all of which were acolytes worhipping at the altar of the most sublime of southern glories, a chicken-fried steak smothered in white gravy with plenty of ground beef chunks.
 
I was so overtaken with religious ecstasy at the sight of this platter of calories that i forgot - oh readers - to take a picture of its glory until after i found myself in an advanced state of food coma.
 
So I give you what can only be described as far, far too much of a very, very chicken-fried good thing in the form of a miraculous sandwich: chicken-fried steak, chicken-fried bacon, sausage, fried egg, a fried green tomato, cheddar cheese, bacon fat-toasted buns, and gravy. Praise a chicken-fried Jesus!
 
Thanks to the upstanding culinary citizens at foodbeast.com for the foto.
 
And if you want to get your own old skool action cooking in Las Vegas, visit http://www.peppermilllasvegas.com

   

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Gorge your eyes on these masterpieces of the neo-post-heartburn intestinal style.
 
7th Annual Spam Sculpture Contest
Was there ever a food better suited to be both muse and medium?
http://www.planetshwoop.com/spam/intro.html
 
700 pounds of Mt. Rushmore cheese art
In an alternate universe, i am a professional cheesecarver who lives in Little Chute, Wis.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19527710/
 
Mummy Meatloaf
I think that all meaty kiddie meals should take the form of the undead.
http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/mummy-meatloaf.shtml
 
Ultra Pork Pig
My canvas? The other white meat.
http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/?attachment_id=2610
 
The King
An image of the pre-bloated version of the golden-suited one rendered in butter.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/08/butter-sculptures-state-fairs-shawn-johnson-elvis-obama-mccain-jesus-vader.html
 
And i cannot remember where in the hell i found the image of the sexy meat car, but i wish i could drive it on a hot, hot road until it was all charred on the outside and steamy rare on the inside and then i'd eat it with my fingers and get all greasy. That, my friends, is what art means to me.

           

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Paula's fried butter balls

So tiny, so innocent, so deadly
Meditate upon their simple perfection of being
Place a single one upon your tongue
Do not think, feel
Ka-thwack!
Struck by a blinding insight into the nature of oneness
The way to enlightenment is buttered
Vigilantly practice such rightness

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/paulas-fried-butter-balls-recipe/index.html

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The source of this conceptual munchery escapes me, but I love it just the same. How about a footlong hotdog necklace??

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I guess many of us are in denial concerning the preparation of our fav. foods.. well I was concerning Hot-dogs.  This video ruined everything for me.. starting from the addition of 'liquid smoke'..and then moving on to the dumper wheel... literally making it look like pureed feces. YUM!

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This is not a joke. I repeat, this is not a joke.
 
Behold the McNuggetini.
 
McDonalds chocolate shake, McNuggests, BBQ sauce, Vanilla vodka. Lots of vanilla vodka.
 
Dance with me, Eunice, out in the yard. Hell, let's line dance on the roof of my rusty Chevy chassis.
 
recipe and photo from the intrepid folk at www.thisrecording.com

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Deep fried Coke!
 
This type of pure American genius is why you don't mess with Texas. Ever.
 
Coke flavored batter, grease fried of course, then sprinkled with cinnamon and smothered in Coke syrup, with a mighty dairy dollop of whipped cream and a cherry on the top.
 
Seriously, does anyone have frequent flier miles they can spare me?
 
The 2009 Texas State Fair runs from Sept 25th thru Oct 18th and this year's theme is "All aboard for food and fun!" (And, yes, the exclamation point is mandatory.) How can you not get with that? For the URL alone, this pilgrimage is worth its weight in bad cholesterol: www.BigTex.com
 
photo courtesy of the talented tastebuds making it happen over at www.supersizedmeals.com

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Chicken fried steak might not be good for you, but think of what it's like for the steer flesh. And for love. Meta meaty art from the genius stop motion mind of Jan Svankmager, my newest favorite person. Youtube him up, people.
 
Thanks to www.meatpaper.com for the heads up.

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This might be a little too high end for my decidedly trailer park taste buds, but who among us hasn't had at least one sweaty dream about bacon marshmallows?
 
Created for a west coast meat party thrown by the flesh-obsessed folks from www.meatpaper.com, the "print magazine of art and ideas about meat".
 
photo courtesy of bunrab.com

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Here at Eat and Let Die we take a strong interest in the foodblog industry and innovative uses of multimedia technology within our field. Today, let me draw your attention to Scanwiches, a brilliantly simple blog of scanned cross-sections of sandwiches. Above, a salami, cheddar, lettuce, roasted red pepper, oil and vinegar on a seeded roll.

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