How to eat Arrosticini

Arrosticini are little skewers of grilled lamb meat. The meat has to

be cut into really tiny pieces to cook the right way, quickly, over coals.

Essentially, it's meat on a stick. Readers may remember my post from July 4 this year when we tried to make arrosticini back in Columbus.  Although a valiant effort, it was flawed because we didn't have the means to cut the meat to the correct and uniform dimensions.

Today we're in the spiritual home land of arrosticini, Abruzzo, and we're enjoying the real thing. As we were doing this, I came to remember the trouble that those poor Columbus-ites had trying to eat the meat on a stick, so I prepared this service as a guide.

Step 1: pick a nice restaurant. Outdoor, at night, is the best choice.

Step 2: Order your appetizers, arrosticini, beer, etc. We'll skip past all the preliminaries.  The arrosticini arrive:

Pick one up by the long end of the stick.

Step 3: bring to face.

Step 4: open mouth, insert meat between teeth and grab the last couple pieces of meat between your teeth. Clench.

Step 5: pull stick away from face, holding meat in teeth.

Step 6: Be amazed by the flavor and goodness. Don't need no stinking sauce, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, etc, they're best straight up!

Here's a better close up view of the arrosticini.

Now some do's and don'ts.

No sword play with your food.

Liquid refreshment, a lot of it, is a good thing.

Finally, save the sticks as you eat so that at the end you can count them and boast about how many arrosticini you ate!