A potent experience... Potence

On Friday night a bunch of us got together for a very interesting dinner. Potence. What on earth is Potence I hear you ask? Well here is the hot story. Potence is french for "Gallows", and consists of a fascinating blackened iron contraption, spiked with long narrow spikes, and hanging from a chain. Meat is skewered onto the spikes (the contraption is pre heated in a fashion I have yet to ascertain) and then once at the table, set over a bowl of rice, and flaming brandy poured over the top. Spectacular and, I can testify, delicious.


Apparently it is a dish originally Hungarian in origin, but I have yet to find anymore details.