Why should Fido settle for a doggie bag -- somebody else's leftovers, for crying out loud -- when there's something on the menu just for him?
The Shark on the Harbor in Ocean City offers this along with mini creme brulees and bread pudding:
"Doggy Dessert. Two cookies for $2. Don't forget your favorite four-legged friend! Our doggie cookies are flavored with beef and best of all, the proceeds go to the Worcester County Humane Society (a no-kill shelter)."
Customers order the doggie treats "all the time," a Shark employee told me by phone just now.
(I hear the human side of the menu is good, too. So says a colleague who recently enjoyed the "bayou" style crab cake with sausage and crawfish, and who tipped me off to the doggie treats. Thanks, Julie!)
I wonder how many food-and-animal lovers treat their pets to gourmet fare, whether from a restaurant or their own kitchens.
When our dog, Fred, was alive, Science Diet was eating high on the hog.
But just a couple weeks ago, while flipping through Every Day with Rachael Ray in a doctor's waiting room, I noticed not just a dog-food recipe, but a very unlikely one: "Cool as cucumber gazpacho."
Fred, you died too soon.
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