📓Lost and Found: Jack White's Guacamole
The White Stripe's dip recipe and several other band riders
Once you make it big as a musician, you are entitled to make a list of demands called a rider. A rider is a document that a band, musician or other performer will send over to the booker relating to their requirements for performance. Most performers will have certain essential items that they need the booker to provide in order to do their job to the best possible standard.
While most musicians only need a few drinks and some fruits, other people can be more demanding. Van Halen demanded absolutely NO brown M&Ms. Iggy Pop has a small novella’s worth of requests, including “Seven dwarves, dressed up as those dwarves out of that marvellous Walt Disney film about the woman who goes to sleep for a hundred years after biting a poisoned dwarf, or maybe pricking her finger on a rather sharp apple… or something.”
Jack White, while a little simpler, seems to have figured out exactly how guacamole should be made and needs it in order to perform.
8 x large, ripe Haas avocados (cut in half the long way, remove the pit—SAVE THE PIT THOUGH—, and dice into large cubes with a butter knife. 3 or 4 slits down, 3 or 4 across. You'll scoop out the chunks with a spoon, careful to maintain the avocado in fairly large chunks.)
4 x vine-ripened tomatoes (diced)
1/2 x yellow onion (finely chopped)
1 x full bunch cilantro (chopped)
4 x Serrano peppers (de-veined and chopped)
1 x lime
Salt & pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl, careful not to mush the avocados too much. We want it chunky. Once properly mixed and tested, add the pits into the guacamole and even out the top with a spoon or spatula. Add 1/2 lime to the top later so you cover most of the surface with the juice (The pits and lime will keep it from browning prematurely.) Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until served. Please don't make it too early before it's served. We'd love to have it around 5 p.m.
Here are other great celebrity riders:
Bjork
Pavement
Blondie
Parquet Courts
The Cars
(Riders found via Smoking Gun)