Surf and Turf

Surf and turf or Surf ' n' Turf is a main dish that is especially popular in North American steakhouses. It consists of a combination of seafood with meat, usually the tails of American lobsters or shrimps (usually either grilled or fried) and steak.

Genesis

The term originated on the North American Atlantic coast. The first written mention was an ad from the year 1967 in the Yellow Pages of Buffalo, which turned the restaurant Michael's House of Steaks. Jane and Michael Stern declared that it was under this name during the 1962 World's Fair at SkyCity restaurant serves ( in the Space Needle in Seattle ). In Stern's Encyclopedia of bad taste ( Encyclopedia of Bad Taste ) Surf and Turf is presented as the epitome of culinary kitsch: " it comes [ ... ], the hedonistic extravagance to maximize " ( "the point [ ... ] is to maximize hedonistic extravagance ") by the two most expensive dishes on the menu are combined; that is, the court will not order for reasons of taste, but to the vulgar self-expression.

Dissemination

The court is in the UK increasingly popular, where the restaurant chain Wetherspoons offers on their standard map Surf and Turf. The American restaurant chain Steak and Ale runs it under the name Steak and Tail.

In Australia it is known as a steak with a wide variety of seafood as a side dish especially on the east coast in the region of the Great Barrier Reef as a reef and beef or beef Reef meets, popular and usually quite inexpensive.

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