Showing posts with label market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label market. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A Delicious New Season

Autumn in New York is amazing.It's Fashion Week and a variety of film festivals.It 's the start of the new season at Lincoln Center.The temps  go down and the humidity dissipates.Best of all, it's a new season of new restaurants and menus.There are new spins on classic recipes and new dishes by famed chefs.

The New York Times Food section highlighted this in their section today.Regulars such as Julia Moskin and Florence Fabricant interviewed chefs  as well as acquiring a sneak peek into the culinary scene.none of the most intriguing is the arrival of new food markets. The city is following in Boston's Chicago's and Philadelphia's footsteps.Food halls cater to a variety of tastes.There is no snobbery there with fancy foods and fancier prices.Chelsea Market , the first and oldest of all the city's food hall is expanding. A division of Black Seed Bagels,Black Seed Appetizers will open.There is also the brand new 8sia will have such stalls as Rice On! and Debutea which will serve bubble teas as well as fruit and even cheese teas. Two others,The Market Line and The Deco  Wil have smaller shops offering inter national fare.

Foodies and gourmets will enjoy the opening of several new restaurants. Davide, named for Davide Sorrento, a young Italian photographer who died in 1997, will be run by father-son chef duo,Larry and Marc.They will be introducing pinsa,an oval Roman flatbread made with a variety of toppings not unlike pizza. Australian chef,Sean Hergatt reimagines  classic American recipes in his new eatery, Vestry in the Dominick Hotel,in Hudson Square. Famed chef, Alfred Portale, the chef and partner of the famed Gotham and Grill strikes out on his own with Portale, a salute to his Italian-American heritage.Manhattan chefs are also making moves . Victoria Blamey is taking over for Chef Portale The The Gotham Bar and Grill.She is changing everything from recipes to even the cutlery and China.

New York in the fall is a magical time.Enjoy all it has to offer on a culinary level.It is a tasty kalaidoscope  of flavors and dishes.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A Gastronomic Love Story

Imagine the man of your dreams as being witty  and sophisticated , a great cook and gastronome.Imagine him taking you on tours as the exotic souks of Morocco and the best Michelin restaurants in Europe. Susan Washburn Buckley didn't have to imagine. The man of her dreams was the very real bon vivant Peter Buckley  - a larger than life figure who had an eye for adventure and great food. Their marriage is now the subject of Ms.Washburn-Buckley's new book and it is a wonderful, flavorful romp,

Eating With Peter  (Arcade Press 2018) is a tasty valentine to Peter Buckley, who started out as a photographer  as well as a writer He grew up in France with his soignee mother Elinor Hays Buckley, known in her own right as a socialite.,There Peter picked up his undying love for all things French , especially the food and wine. Along the way he caught the eye of Susan Washburn, who worked at her publishing company, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. They eventually married and their union led to some amazing gastronomic adventures. To be honest, I usually don't like the new hybrid of memoir/cookbook. The stories leading up to a promised dish can be tedious, but not with this book, I absolutely loved it!!!!.I couldn;t wait to see what the next exciting chapter held . Ms. Washburn   is famous for writing Young Adult books on American history She should definitely write more for adults. Her chapters are so well crafted that I felt like I was standing in the warm waters of the Caribbean with them as they dived for fresh sea urchins to eat or breathing in the exotic spices of a Fez market. I also loved how Ernest Hemingway and his wife Mary, especially the last, weave in and out of the chapters. Peter and Hemingway were friends, sharing a love of bull fighting. Ms. Washburn's style can only be described as sparkling - as sparkling as the champagne she and her husband  sipped.It is never boring , always fresh with a crisp wryness to it.

Each chapter has a recipe or a few at the end of it. Even the one featuring transporting their Bernese mountain dog, Nora to France  has a toothsome recipe for dog biscuits. The recipes excited me,I definitely want to try the gazpacho recipe  this summer. (I would love to try it now but somehow it's not the dish to have in chilly late winter). Many of the French recipes come from French  and Northern Italian chefs. Thanks to the Buckleys and their recipe for the heavenly sounding Gratin Dauphinois a l Ermitarge, a scalloped potato recipe taken from the kitchen of the famed Maurice Tuccinardi.The well known Troigrois, brothers Jean and Pierre, make an appearance as does their recipe for viand glace. It is a leaf taken from their actual cookbook so the recipe is  entirely in Frenc.h  Mary Hemingway's recipe is here also for her seviche, a delightful union of lime juice , onions and red peppers used to "cook" seafood. Peter Buckley was also a writer too  and he wrote a cookbook just on raw food, thirty years before it became de rigueur. His recipe for couscous salad is a refreshing mix of couscous cooked with lemon juice and spiked with  cherry tomatoes , chopped peppers and almonds. Both Buckleys were consummate New Yorkers and there is a chapter on the city's Union Square market as well as on the European ones . Any home chef can recreate Peter's transcendental beans recipe.There is only one dessert dish and that is Ms. Buckley's blueberry one made with a buttery French influenced crust.

Eating With Peter is a delicious romp through the world of food and adventure. Susan Washburn brings  us into that world with her amazing descriptive chapters and recipes. it is the ultimate foodie book.