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The Raw Beef

Here’s a short, delicious, and lethal concoction. Good when you’re in search of instant numbness. Serve in a lowball glass.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 1

Ingredients

2 ounces (60 ml) cheap sake
2 ounces (30 ml) vodka
Ice
Dash or two of Worcestershire sauce
1-ounce (30-g) piece perfect raw beef (from the tenderloin), on a skewer and well chilled

Preparation

  1. Freeze a lowball glass. Shake the sake and vodka with ice and strain into the glass. Serve piscine (with ice) with the Worcestershire dash sinking, and stir with the skewer of beef.

Cookbook cover of The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan, and Meredith Erickson.
Reprinted with permission from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan & Meredith Erickson, copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
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