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This week in Omnivorous I wrote about Carole Travis-Henikoff, a cookbook author, gastronomist, and anthropologist who’s just published an entertaining social history of cannibalism called Dinner With a Cannibal. She grew up in her father’s Los Angeles Scandinavian restaurant, Karl Andersen’s Chatam, which in its day catered to a regular parade of Hollywood swells. Her prepublication party–an abstracted anthropophagite feast (the photo is by partygoer Bill Richert)–didn’t include her dad’s recipe for steak tartare, but given her point that we all have “cannibals in our closets,” I think it might come in handy if the global food crisis continues to worsen. It’s in her cookbook Star Food Revisited, and this is a very slight adaptation:
2 slices pumpernickel or rye bread
1 T capers
