Playboy After Hours

July, 1988

Mr. Yuk?The next time we have a craving for papaya-green-pepper or roast-red-beet ice cream, we'll head for Denver's Rattlesnake Club, whose chef, Jimmy Schmidt, turns unconventional food combinations into elegant meals, many of them garnished with wacky, sometimes Spanish names. Pesadilla China Frita Azul (Blue Fried Chinese Nightmare) is Schmidt's name for a blue-cheese-and-risotto won ton in pimiento sauce. His Incandescent Pheasant is a ground-pheasant pizza topped with poblano peppers; the...