Anyways, wishing you the best weekend ahead! :)
The counter bar at Pegu Club in SoHo.
This week's noteworthy eats:
- brunch at RSVP with Erin, including foie gras dumplings
- "super fancy" grilled cheese sandwiches at Little Muenster with Lisa and Marcus, including grilled fontina and gruyère cheese sandwich with membrillo (i.e., quince paste) and prosciutto
- drinks with Eleanor at Pegu Club (can't stop going back to this awesome spot!) -- they know my weakness for guava, especially with my current favorite, the Vida Guayaba (mescal, Licor 43, honey syrup, lemon juice, and guava)
- my own version of the above-mentioned grilled cheese sandwich using delicious goods from Murray's Cheese Shop
Some ruminating reads:
- Smithsonian magazine discusses a new study that may explain what makes chocolate so irresistible.
- How development of lactose intolerance as an adult can make way for a savings plan.
- Cilantro aversions (like mine!) may be attributable to a particular gene, according to this piece by Huffington Post.
- Three burning questions about salt answered by NPR.
- Learn more about Japanese dashi from Fine Dining Lovers.
- How gastronomy and diplomacy crossover.
- With a drought in play across the pond, olive oil prices soar in Spain.
- Chef Gabrielle Hamilton shares with Bon Appetit her views on food politics through an un-Proustian metaphor.
- Interesting post from Ecosalon on cookbooks.
- Cook Taste Eat by Michael Mina creates a blueprint of a meal from inbox to table.
- How rice paper can create a "roll" for all seasons -- love this idea!
- The New York Times pays homage to the unsung heroes in fine restaurant kitchens in New York City -- the individuals that put out (literal) fires in the kitchen when something isn't working properly.
- Brooklyn's new order of chefs compiled by Time Out New York.
- How boutique coffee shops offer new perks in cities oversaturated with chains, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
- Afraid of the eggplant? The New York Times says otherwise.
- Love this piece by The New York Times restaurant critic, Pete Wells, on the first installment of the Twenty-First Century Limited collaboration between Eleven Madison Park and Alinea -- i.e., Alinea first night taking over at Eleven Madison Park.
In case you missed it:
- How to best crack an egg and how to make the best fried egg.
- Cool desktop backgrounds from Acquired Taste magazine.
- Learn how to style your products in photographs with Chelsea Fuss of Frolic! and photographer Lisa Warninger in Portland!
- Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet will be having a book signing at the Green Light Bookstore in Brooklyn this month!
- How cute are these baby brussel sprouts?!
- Awesome food posters/prints from BKLYN Larder.
- Not sure how I feel about a '40s oyster girl for hire.
- How to truss a chicken in one minute, no needle required from French Revolution Food.
- An impending bacon shortage? A porkapocalypse?! Say it ain't so!
- A dramatic reading of ingredients from a box of macaroni and cheese.
- Ten of the strangest restaurants from around the world on Ecosalon.
- Vogue food writer/critic, Jeffrery Steingarten, is looking for a new assistant. Can anyone say Miranda Priestly of the food world?! Any food enthusiast would kill for this job! :P
- A helpful guide from Chickabug on how much food and drink to serve at a party -- can't wait to use this for future gatherings!
- Looking forward to the new {swoon} column/posts on Gastronomy Blog -- prepared to swoon and drool.
- The Kitchn illustrates why tea is magical (amen!).
A roundup of drool-worthy recipes:
- apple butter with rum burnt sugar sauce and vanilla from Sassy Radish
- sweet spiced pumpkin soup from Some the Wiser
- Chef Thomas Keller's macaroni and cheese from Almost Bourdain
- mushroom and herb macaroni and cheese from Tracey's Culinary Adventures
- miniature French onion macaroni and cheese from I Am a Food Blog
- creamy white polenta with mushrooms from Smitten Kitchen
- frozen raspberry sangria margaritas and Southern pecan pie from Olivia Rae James
- pepper jack grilled cheese sandwich from Joy the Baker
- clams casino from From Away
- blackberry and meyer lemon gin-and-tonics from Spoon Fork Bacon
On the blotter for upcoming noms:
- Six solid oyster happy hours recommended by Gothamist.
- Chris Cannon, former business partner to Michael White, and former chef de cuisine of Ai Fiori, Chris Jaeckle, are collaborating to open All'onda (Italian for "of the waves" which means soupy when referring to risotto). I was a fan of Ai Fiori during Chef Jaeckle's tenure, so I'm very curious to see what he'll have cooking up here!
- Already on the move to make ressies at Ichimura, the sushi bar over at Chef David Bouley's Brushstroke! Pete Wells' review in The New York Times this week just sealed the deal.
- Serious Eats New York rounds up great grilled cheese sandwiches in New York City as well as covers the opening of Dorie Greenspan's new bakery, Beurre and Sel (French for "butter and salt"). Marcus and I will be hitting up the latter this weekend, so I'll be sure to report back!
- It's the weekend before Marcus's birthday, so we'll be nomming all weekend long, including dinner at Sakagura; quick bite at our favorite taco joint, Dos Toros; trying out David's Tea for the first time; brunch with my mom over at Clinton Street Baking Co. (she and Marcus still have not tried its heavenly pancakes yet); drinks at Pegu Club; and baked goods at Maison Kayser (can't wait to "break bread" here!).
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