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Zinc to introduce duck press this month
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Zinc to introduce duck press this month
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Starting in mid-October, Olivier Desaintmartin's Zinc (246 S. 11th St.) will roll out this duck press. What's a duck press? It's a traditional, mostly archaic French tableside tool — and it is not for the squeamish.
Works like this — you order the duck press special, and your server shears the meat and limbs from the duck's carcass and sets it aside. He or she takes that carcass and inserts it into the cylinder of the press, above. Then, your server twists and twists and twists that wheel at the top, which forces a pulverizing disc down, crushing the carcass into submission. Every last ounce of the duck's blood, juice, marrow, etc. drips out of that little spout at the bottom � and then all that goodness is worked into a red wine reduction, which serves as your sauce.
Zinc will soon begin offering a whole duck, along with a salad and potatoes Lyonnaise, for $70, which is pretty good deal for two Francophiles and/or adventurous eaters.
Want to see the duck press in action? Check out this vid from The Feedbag's Josh Ozersky:
[...] after the jump, but it also behooves us to let you know that the French bistro’s duck press, which we told you about last month, is up and running. Available Tuesday through Thursday (with two day’s advance notice), a [...]
OMG! Scary! I also love that this was the post right after the one asking for vegetarian suggestions.
yum.
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