From The Menu · 2022 · Reconstructed
S'mores
Serve when
Serve when Chef Slowik announces the final course — 's'mores' — and the full, terrible meaning of the evening's dessert settles over the room.
In the movie
Theatrical
- 01:37:15 The last course. Chef Slowik presents 's'mores' as the culmination of the entire menu — a childhood campfire sweet reframed as the evening's horrifying finale, the humble becoming monstrous.
The genius and the cruelty of the film's ending is that the grandest tasting menu on earth resolves into a s'more — the most basic, unpretentious campfire treat there is. Slowik has spent the whole meal indicting fine dining's contempt for simple pleasure, and his final course is either a return to it or a weaponization of it, depending on where you sit. Make it well; make it warm; make it for someone you actually like.
Ingredients
- For the graham crackers:
- For the toasted marshmallow meringue:
Method
- Graham crackers: rub the butter into the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt, then bind with honey into a dough. Roll thin, cut into squares, and bake at 350°F for 12–15 minutes until deep golden. Cool crisp.
- Marshmallow: cook the sugar and water to 240°F. Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks, then stream in the hot syrup and whip to a glossy meringue; whip in the vanilla.
- Melt the dark chocolate gently.
- Build each s'more: a graham square, a swipe of dark chocolate, a generous spoon of the marshmallow meringue. Torch it until blistered, cap with a second graham, and finish with a fleck of flaky salt.
- Serve at once, while the meringue is still warm and molten.
Substitutions
- Real marshmallow instead of meringue: the Italian meringue here torches beautifully but stays soft — it won't set chewy like a true marshmallow. For that, bloom 1 tablespoon gelatin in the ¼ cup water before cooking the syrup, then whip it in; let the piped marshmallow set an hour before torching.
- Skip the homemade grahams: a box of store-bought graham crackers works perfectly — the from-scratch ones are a nice touch, not a requirement.
- The easy way: good store-bought marshmallows are completely fair game — it is, after all, a campfire s'more.
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