Tobacco cuisine on display at cigar festival

[TexasTowelie]

HAVANA — Tobacco: It's what's for dinner.

A team of Croatian chefs whipped up a pungent meal Thursday, infusing the flavor of the tobacco leaf synonymous with Cuba into baked stone bass filets, bread and butter, a rich demi-glace sauce, even ice cream.

The result was a tangy heat that one taster likened to ancho chili powder, and a powerful finish with all the nicotine kick of a chubby Montecristo cigar.

"Wow, buzz city!" said Gary Heathcott, a public relations worker from Little Rock, Arkansas, who also writes for Smoke magazine. "The first buzz I ever received from biting into fish."

More at http://www.shreveporttimes.com/viewart/20130306/LIVING01/303060303/Tobacco-cuisine-display-cigar-festival .

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. That sounds positively nausiating.

[fizzgig]

2. i would taste it

but i'm not going to say i would like it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. M-m-m-m... Blue Bell Menthol Chocolate Chip.

[Warpy]

4. Ewwww

Not only gut wrenching but potentially fatal.

There's a reason people who chew spit the tobacco laden slobber out.

[Phentex]

5. I'm grossed out by it. I saw this on one of the cooking shows

I can't recall if it was Top Chef or something but I thought it was a nasty idea.

[Phentex]

6. dupe