Etcetera | Friday Fanfare, 2012.09.21

Happy, happy Friday! Here's this week gratuitous round-up from yours truly! Have a super duper weekend, enjoying the first initial days of the fall season! Wahoo!


Farm dinner with Outstanding in the Field at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez.

This week's noteworthy eats:

• gnocchi with homemade meat sauce
• another amazing five-course, farm-to-table dinner with Outstanding in the Field, curated by the chefs of The Fat Radish
• great dinner with Marcus, Jess, Jill, and Jen at Jones Wood Foundry -- fish 'n' chips and cider all the way!

Some ruminating reads:

• Learning (again) to savor sweet wines with The New York Times.
• Interesting perspective on anti-apple picking from Slate magazine.
• Smithsonian magazine on how well you've kept your 2012 resolutions, including a little mention about fondue pots and resulting parties (check, check for me)!
• http://ecosalon.com/foodie-underground-appreciating-what-you-have/
• Pete Well's brief disappointing review of the new "menu/experience" at Eleven Madison Park (major sad face) and Ulterior Epicure's appropriate response rumination on the old adage "show, don't tell" -- very thought-provoking. 
• Is restaurant service getting worse? Bon Appetit investigates.
• Finding serendipity in the kitchen -- food discoveries that were flukes compiled by The Guardian.
• Will Le Cirque survive after its one-star review in The New York Times this week? Grub Street New York addresses this here.
• The Atlantic Monthly rounds up the twenty most significant inventions in the history of food and drink.
• Museum of Modern Art's provocative cocktail collaboration covered by Food and Wine magazine.

In case you missed it:

• Four Tines 2.0 unveiled with a spiffy new logo by Molly Jacques Illustration!
• Cute DIY by Young House Love using Campbell's limited edition Andy Warhol-inspired tomato soup cans.
• A quick write-up on the upcoming release of Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine at Home from The Wall Street Journal and an accompanying video via Grub Street New York.
• Saveur put together a gallery of all of its past magazine covers to celebrate its 150 years of publication.
• Ecosalon compiles eight substitutions for the most common kitchen ingredients.

A roundup of drool-worthy recipes:

• fresh tomatoes for tomato sauce from Sassy Radish
• beef short rib chili with beans as well as croque madame from From Away
• nectarine and peach jam with lemon verbena from The New York Times
• fried green tomato BLT and red bell pepper pesto from A Cozy Kitchen
• fig hazelnut ricotta crostinis from Spoon Fork Bacon
• beef and mushroom ragù with pappardelle from Design Crush
• Hawaiian ham quesadillas from Budget Bytes
• late summer peaches from Frolic
• fig and ricotta crostini with honey from Nicky and Max
• gnocchi with quick meat sauce from Everyday Food with Sarah Carey
• green goddess dressing from Beyond the Plate
• homemade Nutella from Reclaiming Provincial
• bacon rillettes from James Beard Foundation

On the blotter for upcoming noms:

• Immaculate Infatuation reviewed Aria Wine Bar this week -- looks great!
• Where to escape for pre-dinner oysters in SoCal according to The Amateur Gourmet.
• Lovely round-up of "the best things he's ever eaten" -- admiring the organization and categories by ingredient by Kevin Eats.
• NEED to go check out Ganso Mishpucha ASAP, per these awesome reviews/previews from The New York Times and Grub Street New York. 
• The team from the Morris Grilled Cheese truck is opening a "dinner-only yet sandwich-heavy" spot called Glady's in Prospect Heights around late December -- cannot wait!
• Serious Eats New York is hosting a "Pie & Wine Social" with four of the city's noteworthy pie bakers as well as wines from Brooklyn Winery.