{"id":8265,"date":"2024-06-13T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2024-06-13T00:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:17:01","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-post-one-six-four-its-not-every-bite-but-their-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/13\/twenty-twenty-four-post-one-six-four-its-not-every-bite-but-their-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four post one six four]: it’s not every bite, but their sum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So I had a really good set of meals in Vancouver over the last few days – one at old favorite Gotham Steakhouse<\/a>, one at my consulting client’s office where they ordered Persian from Shishlik Grill<\/a> in for lunch, and one vegan meal at my other old favorite, the Lebanese restaurant Nuba in Gastown<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it struck me, as a foodie, that while these meals were good, their sum was better than their individual bites. In particular, the hummus-tabbouleh-falafel-pita combo at Nuba was solid all around – definitely good but not the best I’ve ever had – but the sum of all of them into a meal was extraordinarily satisfying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is true even in the case where the food itself is extraordinary. One of my favorite meals is the blackened salmon quesadilla at Aqui’s – it’s off-menu, so you have to know that you can order it, and how – and while that quesadilla is one of the best food items ever, it’s the whole plate – the mango salad, the tropical tea, and the special combination of salsas and pickled jalapenos that I add to it – that takes it over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, in one sense, I knew that – I knew a great meal wasn’t just one great dish – but walking out of Nuba today, with a really great, really satisfying Lebanese meal in me – really struck that home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blogging every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: Three great meals (or drinks) from the archives: a cauliflower steak (which they also have, in another form, at Nuba), a Page One or Cafe Salzburg from Cafe Intermezzo, and the blackened salmon quesadilla at Aqui’s (mango salad, with my custom four-flavor salsa combo on the side).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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