I brought up New York's Per Se restaurant in another thread. That got
me curious, and I looked up their menu.


http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant...us/dinner.html


The menu mentions compressed strawberries and compressed honeydew menu.
That got me curious, and I googled on them. It turns out that
compressed fruits are all over the web.


Has anyone tried them? Know what they look like? Know how they're
made? Have an opinion on how they taste? Is compressed a fancy new
word for something ordinary that I'm familiar with like dried or pureed?


There are other items on that menu that piqued my curiousity as well,
but I thought I'd start there.


--Lis

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:48:51 -0400, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>I brought up New York's Per Se restaurant in another thread. That got
>me curious, and I looked up their menu.
>
>
>http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant...us/dinner.html
>
>
>The menu mentions compressed strawberries and compressed honeydew menu.
> That got me curious, and I googled on them. It turns out that
>compressed fruits are all over the web.
>
>
>Has anyone tried them? Know what they look like? Know how they're
>made? Have an opinion on how they taste? Is compressed a fancy new
>word for something ordinary that I'm familiar with like dried or pureed?
>
>
>There are other items on that menu that piqued my curiousity as well,
>but I thought I'd start there.
>
>
Never heard of it, let alone tried it. The pictures I found just
looked like normal melons and berries.
Images
http://www.ideasinfood.com/photos/strawberry/index.html
http://www.yumsugar.com/328383
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurea/...7600339055369/

At first I thought it was a growing method, but maybe it's done with a
vacuum seal device
http://www.ideasinfood.com/ideas_in_...o-terrine.html
- scroll down to "a better grilled eggplant"
http://chadzilla.typepad.com/chadzil.../09/index.html






--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

Julia Altshuler > wrote in
:

> I brought up New York's Per Se restaurant in another thread.
> That got me curious, and I looked up their menu.
>
>
> http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant...us/dinner.html
>
>
> The menu mentions compressed strawberries and compressed
> honeydew menu.
> That got me curious, and I googled on them. It turns out
> that
> compressed fruits are all over the web.
>
>
> Has anyone tried them? Know what they look like? Know how
> they're made? Have an opinion on how they taste? Is
> compressed a fancy new word for something ordinary that I'm
> familiar with like dried or pureed?
>
>
> There are other items on that menu that piqued my curiousity
> as well, but I thought I'd start there.
>
>
> --Lis

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

Never tried them.