Wednesday, March 13

 
Top Story: Silicon Valleyites can recreate favorite pricey restaurant dishes at home

The heady days of four-figure dinner checks are a memory for many newly unrich tech workers, but that doesn't mean they have to resort to mac and cheese from the ol' blue box. The San Jose Mercury-News has taken extreme pity on these poor folks who now must learn to shop for food and wash dishes like the rest of us and some tips for recreating the taste of the high life at home, such as substituting a sirloin tip or chuck roast for that thick steak, buying monkfish instead of lobster, choosing a soy-based "caviar alternative" instead of the fishy real stuff, making do with truffle oil instead of truffles and the like. Now, I dunno. This sounds a little Marie-Antoinetteish, don't you think? Perhaps the Merc's corporate tongue is planted firmly in its cheek, but it sounds a little to me like one old duffer at the country club leaning over to the other and saying, "Yes, old boy, it's sad that you had to give up the limo, but I'm sure you'll get used to driving yourself in the Lexus."
posted by Unknown 8:55 AM