Eat Me

My real-life pal Bev sends in a tip about this post at the DCist on the cuisine to be served up at TasteDC.com's "1st Annual Unique and Unusual Food and Wine Festival."

The TasteDC folks have lined up 13 area chefs to cook some interesting dishes, many of which are reminiscient of that Marlon Brando-Matthew Broderick movie, The Freshman. In the animals-you-don't-see-on-the-menu-everyday camp, Bryan Davis of Chef Bryan's Kitchen will prepare llama "sliders" and grilled crocodile tail, while James Phillips of the Fairmont Hotel's Juniper restaurant will try his hand at rattlesnake gumbo and wattleseed-crusted ostrich leg roast. So far, nothing you wouldn't see at Denver's Buckhorn Exchange -- or even at 2941, which often serves up game and other oddities.

"Llama what?" he asked, nervously thinking of various camelid bits of which he is extremely fond and would not like to see removed and kebobbed. Bev says this is an event we should all attend, but I'm not going unless I'm satisfied well in advance that I would be served a meal, not served as a meal. And Chef Bryan can just stay the hell away from me.

UPDATE: No sooner do I bring up the topic then I find we're the No. 1 google hit for grilled llama recipes.