Dish: Temptation’s Wings & Waffles (photo: Chef John Hurkes)
Ingredients: Southern-fried chicken wings, tobacco onions, and whiskey waffles buried in smoked-bacon-bourbon maple syrup and herb butter.
Album: Down’s Nola – The 1995 southern, Down-home sludge metal classic.
Tasting notes: This (dis)comforting meal could send you either to the bayou from beyond or back to “Rehab.” The wings are shaken in flour, seasoned, and Pepper-ed by the riff masters from New Orleans, Louisana. With the hammering of drums, the waffles are beat together like “Pillars of Eternity” and bloom into a fortress of monolithic tones. Thick riffs wade through a hot whiskey swamp as bluesy guitar solos are picked to the bone. In my mouth tastes bitter sweet syrup. Riding on a waffle ship, the strong, aromatic herb butter sails through a riff-raff of tobacco onions like a howling, pissed off Phillip H. Anselmo. Temptation’s Wings & Waffles could probably be paired with some kind of fancy craft beer, however a Coor’s Light takes you down the high road. With the epic and final crushing grooves of this album, you’ll bang along with drummer Jimmy Bower, fork and knife to the waffles. When I eat, “Bury Me in Smoke”!
2 Comments
Where can I get this tower of smokey deliriousness in LA?
This is awesome. Both the dish itself and the ‘tasting notes’.