On a recent evening, Heidi Wittekind ordered the $21 bucatini pasta with bone marrow at a restaurant in West Hollywood. Then her server offered to upgrade the dish with a $5 shot. The server brought a shot of Madeira, a Portuguese fortified wine, poured it over the bone marrow and yelled “bone luge” while banging on the wine bottle with a kitchen utensil loud enough for other diners to hear. Ms. Wittekind used her napkin as a bib and drank the shot from the bone.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2018 19:15 UTC