March 31, 2010

teriyaki nectar

Teriyaki, we learn from Dwayne Raymond’s memoir Mornings with Mailer (Harper Perennial), was the nectar of Norman Mailer’s declining years. “What about teriyaki, butter, and raspberry jam?” he muses at one point in the book. “Could we mix them together and then fry a thin breakfast steak in it? How would that taste?” (“He asked this,” comments Raymond, “as if I somehow secretly knew how it would taste and was keeping the answer from him.”)

via thephoenix.com

Via Fimoculous, news that Norman Mailer really loved teriyaki. But I’ll admit that it’s tempting to actually fry up that breakfast steak…