To Chris With Love

Tuesday February 9, 2010

This is the 40th day of the year, with 325 days remaining in 2010.

Fact of the Day: porterhouse steak

Martin Morrison, owner of Martin Morrison's Porterhouse in New York City, is credited with coming up with the name porterhouse steak around 1814. The main customers at his establishment were sailors. One late evening with no beef left except for the short loin roasting piece, Morrison served a sailor a broiled slice of it. The sailor enjoyed the steak so much that he ordered nothing else and Martin Morrison's Porterhouse began to specialize in the small loin steak. The word porterhouse originally referred to an establishment where porter (a very dark sweet ale) and sometimes steaks and other meals were sold.