tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75228733747949683852024-02-07T00:23:53.258-05:00Pho the Love of FoodAmy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-12845916866256149392014-11-25T00:38:00.001-05:002014-11-25T00:38:37.554-05:00Hearty Food for Mountain People <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dark was closing in, a gentle but persistent rain had soaked
through my top layer, and the lights from the village were still distressingly
far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was hard to remember that we
had started our day nearly ten hours earlier at an inn in that village over a breakfast of jamon, toast, and strong café con leche. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then we had tread 28 kilometers on
rocks, road, scree, and snowpack; we had been pelted by hail and rain and
caressed by the warmth of the shy sun; we had shared beers, coffee, and tales
of the trail with fellow hikers seeking refuge from a passing storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But at that moment, trying to make out the rooftops of Sallént
de Gallego through a grove of threateningly dark trees, all I wanted was a hot
shower, a dry towel, and the hearty mountain dinner that I knew was waiting at
the end of the trail. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This past July, John and I spent eight days hiking in the
Spanish Pyrenees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our journey was a
self-guided loop around the Valle de Tena arranged through the outfitter Hike
Pyrenees, a tour operator offering a variety of Spanish hiking trips both
guided and independent, as we had chosen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The idea of setting out each day with a detailed set of directions and
map (in English) and needing to take along nothing more than our daypacks
sounded like a dream opportunity to explore a mountain range that not many
native English speakers get to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
end of each day, our suitcases would appear in the next village having been
spirited there by car while we traversed by foot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When planning this trip, in addition to the expectation of epic
mountain vistas, I also harbored fantasies of pan con tomate for breakfast,
leisurely vino soaked lunches and long dinners ending in a table littered with
the leftovers of a tapas feast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it
turned out, we would eat well and plenty, and tapas would occasionally
be involved, but the mountain cuisine of Basque country was a far cry from the
gambas ajillo, patatas bravas, and paella that many people think constitutes
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As we hiked from idyllic village to idyllic village, we worked
up an appetite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each morning we would
eat our fill of fresh scrambled eggs, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tostada
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and fresh juice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The proprietor of each
inn would pack us a small lunch, usually a bocadillo stuffed with grilled
chorizo or longaniza, or one layered with jamon, thin omelet, crushed tomato,
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When we stopped for lunch, sometimes it was in a rush,
trying to eat in a breezy spot by the side of a river having found a place
where the flies were not swarming and the mosquitoes might layoff of us for a
minute. Other days we just powered through the hike, drinking our lunch in the form of an ice-cold cerveza, followed by a snack, and then the requisite siesta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But dinner in the Pyrenees was where the cuisine really
shined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In eight nights there was not a
paella pan in sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seafood was more
bacalao (salt cod) than gambas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
there was meat, well, in every form imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it came to vegetables, the chefs did their best when the vegetable
in question was a potato- and those were always best when fried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, this was hearty food for
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cooking that happens to have a few rooms attached where you can spend the
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were happy to spend the night,
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<o:p> </o:p>The energetic owner walked us through the menu nodding every
few sentences until I nodded back indicating that I was following her
rapid-fire, thickly accented Spanish. In
reality I only picked up a few words here and there but it was enough to point
and order some of the dishes she enthusiastically recommended. A starter of soup filled with chickpeas and
morcilla sausage was robust and filling enough to be a meal on its own. This followed with piquillo peppers stuffed
with creamy bacalao that were none too attractive when smothered in a rich
tomato sauce. But the sweet peppers balanced
well with the luscious salt cod filling. John’s chilled asparagus soup was pure summer
in its vibrant color while his lamb chops were juicy and grassy as if the lambs
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Back in Sallénte we finally knocked on the door of the
Hotel Almud at 8:30pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maria, the owner,
whisked away our soaking wet hiking shoes and backpacks to dry in her boiler
room over night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She even called the restaurant
to push our reservation back, though assured us that our 9pm dinner time was
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Clean, warm, and dry, we limped our tired bodies 200 meters
away and poured ourselves into chairs at Asador Casa Jaimico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t much remember ordering wine, but when
a bottle of red magically appeared neither of us objected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will admit a tiny amount of shock at the enormity of my leg of lamb when it emerged from the kitchen a crusty oven crisped
brown in a pool of its juices, but the size did not deter me from finishing the
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Nor did John have a problem polishing off a decadent starter of
mushroom risotto with duck confit followed by half a grilled rabbit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was almost an obscene amount of meat
between the two of us, yet we found ourselves picking at the bones for every
last morsel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was easy to see after
days of trudging up steep mountain slopes in sometimes dangerous conditions how
this cuisine would evolve. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was food
as rugged and natural as the people who live there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Eight days eating as they do in the Pyrenees was more than
enough for two omnivores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hard treks
behind us and back in the modest sized village of Biescas for our last night,
we did as many locals were doing that beautiful Sunday evening and
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer currently on her honeymoon, en route to a new home in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i><br />
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-62658093403542713562014-10-17T08:34:00.001-04:002014-10-17T08:34:40.274-04:00Ode to Durango<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Oh <a href="http://www.durango.org/" target="_blank">Durango</a>, why do I feel like singing and breaking out into
a jaunty dance every time I think of you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I had actually never heard of you until early this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that is because you are tucked way down
into the Southwest corner of Colorado, closer to Santa Fe than to Denver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet perhaps it is that very remoteness that
has kept your charm intact, years after the mining operations upon which your
town was founded packed up and left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thank goodness our honeymoon Western road trip gave us the opportunity
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About those mining town remnants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That <a href="http://www.durango.org/activities/durango-silverton-railroad.aspx" target="_blank">train running between Durango and Silverton</a>- very cool, though I could do without the loud steam engine noise
every half hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly kids get a kick
out of the horse drawn carriages running up and down Main Avenue, a rare street
of bustling activity that actually lives up to its name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And never have I stayed at a historic hotel
like the <a href="http://strater.com/" target="_blank">Strater</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The petit rooms and
antique décor is charmingly retro, making me think to a time of women wearing
bustles and men sporting mustaches <i>un-</i>ironically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it manages the historical nod while
providing service that is on par with any modern, first-class hotel- an
impressive feat. <br />
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Oh but you are more than walk back in time, Durango!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, you do everything possible to
inspire visitors to walk, run, hike, bike, and even kayak through the nature
that surrounds you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hiking in the San
Juan Mountains was filled with dramatic peaks (Mt. Engineer) and hidden enchanted
bodies of water (the eerie cyan-colored Ice Lakes).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when we chose to stay closer to town,
running along the Animas River was a splendid opportunity to take in the city
vistas on a 7-mile supremely well-maintained path shared with bikers, walkers,
and disembarking kayakers. </div>
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For a place so remote, you are <i>no</i> country bumpkin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In keeping with the grand Colorado tradition
of beer making, you offer multiple destinations for sampling local suds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite its ubiquity, we weren’t crazy about
<a href="http://skabrewing.com/" target="_blank">Ska Brewing</a>, but loved the opportunity to sip through a variety of beers as
part of a sampler at the <a href="http://brewpubkitchen.com/" target="_blank">Brew Pub</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homemade pastries at Jean-Pierre Bakery on Main Ave.</td></tr>
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Dining selections are just as impressive and varied as the
beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinner at <a href="http://seasonsofdurango.com/" target="_blank">Seasons</a>, where we
ate a salad with arugula, cherries, and delicious cheese from local producer
<a href="http://jamesranch.net/" target="_blank">James Ranch</a> and chicken saltimbocca with house-smoked bacon, was on par with
any big city farm-to-table restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And just when we started feeling a little overwhelmed with Americana, we
needed only to take a walk to <a href="http://www.himkitchen.com/" target="_blank">Himalayan Kitchen</a> to get our fill of Nepali food
including some delicious yak (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">local</i>,
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And if all that wasn't enough to inspire others to visit you, Durango, I have read you get 330 days of sunshine a year! (Cue soggy Seattleites booking their next vacation.) </div>
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Durango, you are the sort of town that makes me want to pen
an imaginary letter of gratitude, so thankful am I that treasures like you
still exist in America, just waiting to be discovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is just the sort of happiness filled
town you are- the singing, dancing, eating, hiking, merry-making kind of
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cue the music. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Duran-gooooooh!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer currently on her honeymoon, en route to a new home in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i><br />
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-59270266307268000782014-09-11T06:18:00.000-04:002014-09-11T06:18:58.659-04:00You Can’t Afford Not to Travel Here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cape Dutch homes in the winter vineyards, Franschhoek</td></tr>
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It is about as far away as you can get from the United
States and the plane ticket will definitely cost more than a flight to
Paris. But trust me, you cannot afford <i>not </i>to travel here. </div>
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Which Southern Hemisphere paradise am I referring to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a place where the wine flows freely, the
green hills roll into impressively towering mountains, three course meals for
two people can be enjoyed for less than your average New York
dry cleaning bill; where do-gooders will rescue you from flat tires and where a wine shop owner might open the store on his day off just because you emailed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Namaqualand's spring flowers in full bloom</td></tr>
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While images of exclusive $2000 per couple per night safaris
are not wrong, that is certainly not the only way to travel here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Safaris, for instance, can also be done
rather cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rent a car and drive to the parks and you are saving money already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Better yet, rent a four-wheel drive vehicle with a pop-up tent on the
roof and you will be ready to spend the night in one of hundreds of campgrounds
around the country most of which come with water hook ups, lights, and communal
hot-water shower facilities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not in to camping? No problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Africans have mastered a type of
lodging that you really don’t see much in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most often these cottages, semi-permanent
tents, or homes are listed as “self-catering”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means you will have a room, likely with all the amenities of a
bed and breakfast or hotel, but you are on your own for dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they’ll even give you a fully equipped
kitchen and braai (barbecue as they call it in those parts) to cook up
something delicious. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John with our Toyota Hilux 4x4 and the pop-up roof tent</td></tr>
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We stayed in a few of these types of lodging on a recent
trip through South Africa and Namibia and we passed by many more that we would
have been very happy to spend a night in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A stone cottage at Verbe Farm in Namaqualand was 8 kilometers off the
main highway and about 100 years away from our normal lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The charming owners had converted the ruins of a stone shepherd’s hut into a cozy retreat. The lack of electricity only added to the charm- oil lamps and candles
filled every room providing more than enough light. Meanwhile John lit a fire on our indoor braai
that served the dual purpose of heating up the stone walls on that chilly
winter night and cooking our dinner, a fine curried pork loin. It was a night
like none other and for that privilege we paid the nominal fee of $60. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalahari Tented Camp</td></tr>
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Most first-timers to South Africa will go the luxury safari
route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is much to love about this
type of travel- great food, experienced guides, 1000-count Egyptian cotton
sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t have to worry about
much at these posh camps save for what time you’d like to take a nap and what
you will drink for your sundowner (evening cocktail).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those looking for a step up from camping
but not wanting to dish out the big money, South Africa’s park service offers
some wonderful accommodation inside the best parks from Kruger to
Kgalagadi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our recent trip to the
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the red sand Kalahari Desert, we laid down $113 for
one night at the Kalahari Tented Camp, an unfenced compound of a dozen semi-permanent
structures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each tent had running water,
a hot shower, comfortable beds, and a kitchen complete with a full-sized refrigerator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had prime seats for watching springbok,
oryx, wildebeest, and jackals feed at the watering hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after the sun went down, the roars of the
lions and cackling hyenas walking through camp serenaded us with an African
symphony. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snoek cake at Cafe BonBon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch at Cafe BonBon</td></tr>
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Franschhoek, a verdant valley surrounded on three sides by
towering mountains, has sometimes been compared to Napa in the Alps. <o:p></o:p>This almost under-sells it.
Picture the least pretentious, most charming parts of Napa and Sonoma
then put that in Lauterbrunnen, up-valley from Interlaken, nestled against the mountains,
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We borrowed a house from friends for our four-night
stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But many of the places we visited
from the deservedly famous La Petite Ferme to the cozy Café BonBon at La Petite
Dauphine, housed small cottages on the properties interspersed between grape
vines. Though there are plenty of luxury accommodations in the area, the self-catering idea works very well in Franschhoek as the main meals
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Petite Ferme: a must-stop for lunch</td></tr>
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I would be remiss to not mention the quality of the food
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Southern Africa. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their prime location
gives chefs here access to fish and seafood from the Western Cape and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tasting with Jeremy, Sales Director at Chamonix</td></tr>
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Even the wine is shockingly inexpensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$3 for a glass of wine, a price you could not
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Pieter, owner of Verbe Farm in Namaqualand</td></tr>
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The final reason why you should visit South Africa is because
their citizens really want you to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time
and time again we were overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers when we needed
help (flat tires, lost keys), the generous spirit (the owner of the wine shop
La Cotte Inn who opened up just for us on a Sunday), and the enthusiasm to
share their special part of the world with us, from the Kalahari to
Franschhoek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, we visited just a
small selection of this vast country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is much more to explore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I for one know we will be back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can’t afford not to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Where to Stay</u></div>
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<b>Verbe Farm</b>, Namaqualand</div>
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http://www.safarinow.com/go/VerbeCaravanParkandFarmAccommodation</div>
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Contact: Pieter and Verencia</div>
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<b>Kalahari Tented Camp</b>, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park</div>
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http://www.sanparks.org/parks/kgalagadi/tourism/availability.php?resort=56</div>
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Also see www.sanparks.org for other accommodations and camping reservations within the South African park system.</div>
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<b>Chamonix, </b>Franschhoek</div>
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http://www.chamonix.co.za/</div>
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Self-catering and traditional lodge accommodations. Restaurant on-site, lunch weekdays, dinner on Friday and Saturday. Some of the best wines in the valley available for tasting during the day.</div>
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<b>La Petite Ferme, </b>Franschhoek</div>
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http://www.lapetiteferme.co.za/</div>
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Self-catering and traditional suite and lodge accommodation. One of the best restaurants in Franschhoek, lunch only.</div>
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<u>Where to Eat</u></div>
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<b>Cafe BonBon at La Petite Dauphine, </b>Franschhoek</div>
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http://www.lapetite.co.za/</div>
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Breakfast and lunch daily. Dinner on Friday and Saturday. Some luxury suites on-site as well.</div>
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<b>Reuben's, </b>Franschhoek</div>
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http://reubens.co.za/</div>
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<u>Where to Shop</u></div>
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<b>La Cotte Inn,</b> Franschhoek</div>
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http://www.lacotte.co.za/</div>
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer currently on her honeymoon, en route to a new home in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-19664859699454143972014-08-22T05:57:00.001-04:002014-08-22T05:57:39.297-04:00A Seafood Feast Worth the Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cooking on the open fire, Muisbosskerm</td></tr>
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How far would you travel for a special restaurant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.muisbosskerm.co.za/" target="_blank">Muisbosskerm</a>,
an open-air restaurant on the Western coast of South Africa, is a about as hard
to get to as it is to spell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A direct
trip from New York requires nearly forty hours in transit including three
planes and a three-hour drive once landing in Cape Town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this food lover’s opinion, the journey is
worth it because there is simply no restaurant like it in the world. </div>
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Most of the Western coast of South Africa is sparsely
populated, and th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">e fishing village of Lambert’s Bay is no exception- a few
guesthouses and a discount market clustered near the end of a gravel road. </span>It is a wonder then that Muisbosskerm, a
couple of kilometers south of town, has thrived for the last 28 years, now
attracting more guests (including more foreigners) than ever before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We pulled into the parking lot as the sun was setting, an
early 6:30pm on our recent winter visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mud walls were the only real structure, enclosing about four-fifths of
the interior, leaving enough space to walk out to the ocean and catch the
fading light over a Windhoek lager. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking
up there was no roof, just the first stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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simmered stews, to bread, would be cooked over the open fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going back for seconds on snoek liver</td></tr>
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The owner, a large, friendly Afrikaner, told us to pace
ourselves, that the food would be served communally- we could eat as much as we
wanted but there would be a lot of food coming out over the course of several
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keeping that in mind I held back as
the first arrival, a large platter of steamed mussels with a cast iron skillet
of melted butter and garlic, was set down on a high table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few of the thirty or so other guests
clustered around the pan leaving their mussels shells in a bowl to the
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These shells would be cleaned and
later reappear as “spoons” for scooping paella and stew. </div>
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We finally went in for a solid first course when the lady
working with a large pot of oil placed a tray of two types of fried fish next
to the mussels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The texture was a dense
on one and the taste a bit metallic and rich on the other- we loved both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later the owner would tell us those were the
roe sack and liver of snoek, an abundant local fish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We filed that under “Things We Are Glad We
Didn’t Know Before” and went back for a second helping.</div>
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As the evening progressed over a bottle of wine, we saw two types of smoked fish and four kinds of whole, grilled fish including
Angelfish, Kabeljou, and the body of the Snoek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The paella came off the fire bursting with crawfish, mussels, and
squid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few more fried pieces appeared,
this time of the actual meat of the fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were salads (a bit beside the point), fried potatoes, and bread
still steaming from the oven (very much on point).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For an extra 40 rand per person (about $4) we each had a
half of a large crawfish, grilled and painted with butter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was sweeter and more tender than most lobster
I have had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was our kind of dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though a couple of stews appeared and coffee served,
we could not fathom another bite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilf8ud3w5VYen5dufR-mS4F3ujKSOlDzjHWa5cupsObJ87ebwj5BzfenaZ9fkpGxl-ZONfsXEprxyCYWYE8QBdWfcr2y0g2KXn7ZWKAfBm2uE8v7JFV63W0F4-o8duOc0sgzWur-pL_m8/s1600/P8091130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilf8ud3w5VYen5dufR-mS4F3ujKSOlDzjHWa5cupsObJ87ebwj5BzfenaZ9fkpGxl-ZONfsXEprxyCYWYE8QBdWfcr2y0g2KXn7ZWKAfBm2uE8v7JFV63W0F4-o8duOc0sgzWur-pL_m8/s1600/P8091130.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>On the surface, it is hard to believe that people would
travel so far for a restaurant with no roof, where plates are made of
Styrofoam, paper towels work as napkins, and the only utensil available is a
mussel shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we warmed our hands by
the fire, listening to the crashing of the waves and staring up at the Southern
constellations I could not think of another restaurant with this unique
combination of atmosphere and wonderful, abundant, local food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a
restaurant unlike any other, the journey is always worth it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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DETAILS</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Muisbosskerm</b></div>
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http://www.muisbosskerm.co.za/</div>
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Lambert’s Bay, Western Cape, South Africa</div>
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Make reservations far in advance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The restaurant only opens when they have at
least 15 people on the books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check in
two weeks before your visit to confirm they will be open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinner only except on Sundays when they do
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The owner’s brother has a campsite across the street from
the restaurant (about 200 rand for the night with showers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several guesthouses in Lambert’s
Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those looking for more luxury, the
Clanwilliam Hotel in the charming village of Clanwilliam is a 40 minute
drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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About US$20 per person, $4 extra for the crawfish when in
season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drinks are paid for
separately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beer and wine available but
BYO is also okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CASH ONLY (South
African rand)</div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-32647878855241534562014-08-07T12:04:00.002-04:002014-08-07T13:35:35.995-04:00Where the Real Ends and the Fake Begins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rabbit Sausage at La Boca, Santa Fe</td></tr>
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--></style><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The first thing we noticed pulling into Santa Fe was that
every building looked the same, and surprisingly, it looked kind of great. Pueblo-style motels, pueblo-style strip
malls, even a pueblo-Burger King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
a whole city of curved-edged walls in a terracotta palette to match the
surrounding salmon and copper colored desert . </div>
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Walking to dinner that night through the narrow, well-preserved
streets of downtown, John and I passed by the windows of softly lit
galleries, jewelry stores (heavy on turquoise and silver), and Southwestern-themed
restaurants with the obligatory cactus in the cover art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The almost full moon, a band playing in the
distance on the square, it was all perfectly pleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just…. “You know,” John said, looking
down the cobble stoned street ahead, “it is hard to tell where the real ends and
the fake begins.”</div>
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Our dinner that night was not any version of Southwestern
cuisine but rather one influenced by a distant cousin across the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://labocasf.com/about.html" target="_blank">La Boca</a>, a Spanish tapas restaurant, sits
just north of Santa Fe’s main square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The menu held some familiar tapas that were at the same time very
local.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patatas bravas, for instance,
were made from locally grown fingerlings, skin left on and fried, then served
with a sauce made sherry vinegar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
gambas ajillo, another tapas staple, here felt fresh with the additional of
local chiles served in a garlic broth instead of the usual oil bath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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On a tip from an REI salesperson in Albuquerque, the next
morning we woke early to head to the Pecos Wilderness, a part of Santa Fe few
non-locals ever see. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minutes after our
car left the town square we were climbing out of the pink desert dotted with
scrub and cacti and into a lush, conifer-filled forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gambas ajillo at La Boca</td></tr>
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The 14 mile round trip to Lake Katherine is supposedly one
of the most popular hikes in the area but for whatever reason, we were almost
alone that day (save for one grumpy couple who tried to talk us out of the
hike, convinced we would never make it back before the afternoon thunderstorm
rolled in).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trail rose in sharp ups
and knee-busting downs until were emerged above the tree line, snow still visible
in some shady patches. At the saddle we gazed to the horizon- on one side was the
uninhabited wilderness stretching as far as the eye could see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other Santa Fe, its dotted adobe
structures almost disappearing into hillsides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Katherine hike, Pecos Wilderness near Santa Fe</td></tr>
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We made it to the crystalline lake and back in time for a
quick dinner at a restaurant frequented by locals and tourists alike. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the bar we were surrounded by regulars who
hadn’t seen each other in weeks or years, catching up on deceased spouses, new
homes, and where they “winter”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We might
have lingered longer over our green chile enchiladas to see what the OCD woman sitting
next to us would do ne<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">xt- she who pulled up a chair only after disinfecting it,
the menu, and the bar with wipes. </span>But
our time rubbing elbows with the locals would be short that night as we had an
opera to get to. <br />
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Perched on a mesa, the Santa Fe Opera is one of the most
unusual, stunning music venues I’ve seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The permanent tented structure seems designed to showcase the
surrounding environment as much as the world-class singers who pass through the
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The night’s performance, Carmen, was a favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as Carmen seduced soldiers and men
smuggled goods over the border, not even Escamillo’s sequined green toreador
costume could compete for our attention with the thunderstorm that raged just
beyond the tent walls. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lightening cut
gashes through midnight blue sky, thunder boomed over the orchestra, wind
gusted through audience causing well-heeled women wearing too little clothing
to huddle against their partners for warmth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was action on the stage that night, but the real drama was playing
out in the night sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Given its tourism draw, that Santa Fe felt a bit
manufactured was not surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taos,
on the other hand was a place that fired my imagination with thoughts of famous
artists and writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely a place that
once hosted such literary greats such as D. H. Laurence and Aldous Huxley, not
to mention dozens of painters and photographers, had to have a palpable
magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was eager to have a bit of that
fairy dust rub off on me. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Famous sign of the historic Taos Inn</td></tr>
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Instead I found myself the next day looking at Google Maps and
saying to John, “We can’t possibly be only a mile from our hotel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel where we would be staying, the
historic <a href="http://www.taosinn.com/" target="_blank">Taos Inn</a>, was supposed to be across from the town square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From where we were on the main road into
town, all we could see were fast food chains, discount stores, and strip malls
in none of the faux architecture of Santa Fe, just your standard, depressing
suburban sprawl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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To our relief on arrival, the hotel had some charm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each room was unique, decorated with art and
furniture from different artisans working in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel bar, with nightly music and some of
the best margaritas that have ever crossed my lips, was clearly the epicenter
of Taos nightlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But it turns out those were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> only advantages of staying in what Taos calls its
“downtown”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exploration of the main
square turned up little more than a sad collection of junk-filled gift shops
and more “Southwestern Art” galleries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finding a place to get a decent cup of coffee and read the paper was
only possible thanks to a small café inside a hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the only restaurant with “local” cuisine was
about as Southwestern as something you might find in Omaha. </div>
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What we needed, we discovered, was to head north, past
downtown, as if we were leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We needed
a hearty Fourth of July, pre-hike breakfast the next morning and we found what
we were looking for at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bearclawcafe#" target="_blank">Bear Claw Café</a>, a mile north from our hotel.
Breakfast burritos with eggs, potatoes and bacon; blue corn pancakes; scones;
food came out of that kitchen fast and furious for people of all ages and sizes
looking to get fortified for a big day ahead. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">List of local suppliers at The Love Apple, Taos</td></tr>
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The night before, up the road from the Bear Claw, we had
discovered the <a href="http://theloveapple.net/" target="_blank">Love Apple</a>- a farm-to-table restaurant listing so many vendors
on a blackboard that if I would have sworn I was in San Francisco or Portland,
not New Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bit further north, we
found a hippie-dippie coffee shop called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Coffee-Spot/139452102761240" target="_blank">The Spot</a>, a quirky mostly locals joint
featuring slow service for great coffee and bathroom walls lined with art work
where tin cans became canvases for space aliens and mythical creatures. It was
the kind of coffee shop I could see stopping by each day for my morning tea in
the unlikely event we ever moved to Taos. </div>
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The further we traveled from the center of town, the more Taos
became a place where we felt comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then food is only one part of understanding a place, and Taos still
seemed a bit blurry around the edges. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hiking to Mt. Wheeler, New Mexico</td></tr>
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We drove north toward the Taos Ski Village nestled in the
imposing mountain range jutting up from the desert floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were destined for Mt. Wheeler, at 13,200
feet, the tallest peak in New Mexico. All along our hike we met people- Native
American families, Bavarian tourists, a man who had last hiked the to the peak 30
years earlier and vowed to come back, as well as local hikers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The final two thousand foot ascent was a
strenuous push through a scree field with uncertain footing, screaming calves,
and burning lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the way up people
would pass us on their descent saying, “you have this”, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“almost there”, “keep going, it is worth it”. </div>
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I don’t know what D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley saw in
Taos that inspired them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a town
that is like a drive-through window, that does little to encourage you to stop,
get out, and walk around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a bit out
of town, on a mountain, we shared moments with people not unlike
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tagged the top then shared
it forward, encouraging our fellow hikers on the way down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At the bottom, we raised a glass and toasted with the
Bavarians and other fellow hikers at the brauhaus near the base of the trail. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The beer was frosty, the mountain air crisp
and clear, and our legs exhausted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real. </i>For me, Taos had finally
come into focus. </div>
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<b>La Boca</b><br />
72 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, United States</div>
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<b>Bear Claw Bakery and Cafe</b><br />
228 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571, United States <i> </i><br />
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<b>The Love Apple</b><br />
803 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571, United States<br />
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<b>The Spot</b><br />
<i> </i>900 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571, United States<br />
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer currently on her honeymoon, en
route to a new home in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Cornell
University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary
Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-86040012511713628372014-07-20T21:09:00.001-04:002014-07-20T21:09:16.055-04:00When the Layover is Just the Beginning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizPH7iOBogXQLsDstOaeChJVWavJoT4C3Okqsymonai9W4nzHa8aVYcAZD-oPNGXjlRJ7XGqaUpwVdyAmoIU_PuXGmJnB6Ov6stsYcmHofaB8uMqF5j5iXJBdgln7sgg9vQLLrwESmzc/s1600/P7010527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizPH7iOBogXQLsDstOaeChJVWavJoT4C3Okqsymonai9W4nzHa8aVYcAZD-oPNGXjlRJ7XGqaUpwVdyAmoIU_PuXGmJnB6Ov6stsYcmHofaB8uMqF5j5iXJBdgln7sgg9vQLLrwESmzc/s1600/P7010527.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a>I thought our night in Albuquerque was going to be one of
those means-to-an-end stops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
“means” being a late night arrival from the East Coast, needing a bed on
which to put our heads and a restaurant to fill our bellies the next day before
we hit the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “end” being those
more desirable, storied parts of New Mexico- Santa Fe, Taos- for which we were
destined. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As with so many times when I have had no expectations, a
city managed to surprise me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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John had booked the <a href="http://www.hotels.com/ho131059/hotel-andaluz-albuquerque-united-states/" target="_blank">Hotel Andaluz</a> with little more to go on
than their claim to be the only boutique hotel in Albuquerque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Driving through the rather desolate streets
of downtown, in the shadow of large, chain hotels, it was a bit of a shock (and
a relief) to walk into serene interior of the Andaluz, complete with intricate
wood paneling seemingly lifted of the walls of some Moorish hacienda in Spain. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It turned out the Andaluz is the only historic hotel still
standing in Albuquerque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a recent
$30 million renovation it is unique in an otherwise sea of standard room
offerings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though just steps from the
Convention Center and the somewhat seedy nightlife of Central Avenue, the Andaluz had the charm more often found in boutique hotel-rich cities like San Francisco and Miami.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further, at only $100 for the room, the Andaluz would turn out to be the
best hotel deal in our three week American West Road Trip. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time we checked in, the hotel’s restaurant, run by one of New Mexico’s most well
respected chefs, had long since closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the pleasant woman at the front desk recommended a nearby bar she
claimed to hang out at herself on her nights off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crowd lining up to order at the counter at Frontier.</td></tr>
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Even though it was past midnight on a Monday, The <a href="http://theanodyne.com/" target="_blank">Anodyne</a> did
not make us feel unwelcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were
still enough people milling about, playing pool, or nursing a beer from one of
the thirty-plus taps that we felt right at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bar doesn’t serve food but we had heard
there were chips and salsa available, apparently all gone by the time we
arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Unperturbed,</span> we ordered a Macallan each and called that dinner. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even before the hotel clerk recommended Anodyne, it turns
out we had already heard the best tip we would have from a local.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The employee at Thrifty Car Rental, a
friendly girl with white-blond hair dip-dyed Smurf-blue, had given us the full
run down at the counter on all her favorite things to do in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.frontierrestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Frontier</a>, she insisted, was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the </i>place to go if we wanted a taste of
“real” Southwestern cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Frontier was the sort of restaurant we would have
driven right by without a second look if not for the recommendation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The red and white barn exterior, not to mention its
location directly across from the university, seemed more Waffle House than Beacon of Authentic Southwestern Cuisine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I realized with one bite of my chicken enchiladas buried
under a mountain of chopped New Mexican green chiles with just the smallest
sprinkle of melted cheddar, that all these years I had been eating enchiladas
the wrong way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for John’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adovada</i> soft tacos, I had never before heard of
that particular way of marinating pork in a red chile sauce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat on both was just right- the slow
tingling that develops over time without burying the flavors of the sweet
marinade, savory pulled meats, and salty chips on the side.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was hard to imagine we would eat better Southwestern food
after Frontier, and that was our very first meal in New Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would be more excellent meals as we
took the high road out of town to Santa Fe and then on to Taos. But that first amazing
meal, on the recommendation of a total stranger, was a good reminder than on a
road trip, sometimes the “means” was the “end” you were looking for all along.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hotel Andaluz<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 9pt;">125 2nd St NW Albuquerque, NM, 87102</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 9pt;">888 734 8503</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anodyne<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">409
Central NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frontier<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">2400 Central Ave SE,
Albuquerque, NM 87106</span></span></span></h4>
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer currently on her honeymoon, en route to a new home in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-184895319371948952014-04-14T10:23:00.000-04:002014-04-14T10:23:00.707-04:00As Some Locals Do: Paris<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Is there anything better than a weekend in Paris? <i>Mais
oui! </i>How about a weekend in Paris staying with dear friends in their <i>très</i> <i>chic</i>
flat in the 16<sup>th</sup> arrondissement?
In our case, said flat and hospitable friends came complete with two
smart and charming teenage children, a well stocked wine <i>cave, </i>and one fluffy, excitable Tibetan terrier named Bandit. (If I could have taken home one souvenir in
my suitcase, it would have been him.)<br />
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Perhaps staying beneath the mansard roofs in the lofty
confines of the 16<sup>th</sup>, adjacent to the spectacular Haussmann
commissioned park, Bois de Boulogne, is not every Parisian’s experience of
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for our friends, this has been
their world for the last ten years and we were more than happy to tag along for
their typical weekend affairs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you really want to rub elbows with the locals, the
Saturday market is the way to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
grabbed a pushcart (we are told it is standard practice for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tout le monde</i> to bring your own reusable
shopping bags and carts) and headed to the nearest out-door market to help our
friends stock up on food for the week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As John and I were on vacation, and it was his birthday
weekend, calories were of no concern as we saddled up to the crêperie and
ordered two with ham, cheese, and a cracked egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our friends explained that the young couple
behind the griddle had just recently purchased the stand from another older
couple that had hung up their aprons to move into retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was surely hard work, setting up a
moving restaurant each morning in a new market site, but if their early efforts
at crêpe-making were any indication of what the future will bring, I expect
they will find much success. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Lebanese "pancakes"</td></tr>
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Our next stop was the Lebanese pancake stand for a stack of
stuffed flatbreads that their kids would reheat like pizza throughout the
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way we passed a long line
at a vegetable seller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our friend told
us the line was for kale. Kale?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You mean
the lowly vegetable that has been in fashion on New York salad plates for years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, that vegetable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to an enterprising expat who started
pushing farmers to grow the plant as part of <a href="http://thekaleproject.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Kale Project</a>, the curly
variety has slowly grown a following in Paris to the point where lines form on
Saturday mornings just to get a coveted bunch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the weekend was not all shopping and home-cooking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were in Paris, after all, birthplace of
haute cuisine, steak frites, and the practice of eating cheese for
dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of meals out were in
order.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paris-Brest at Paul Bert</td></tr>
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First up was a return to a classic I had visited a year earlier,
Bistrot Paul Bert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a time <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/magazine/can-anyone-save-french-food.html" target="_blank">when as many as 70% of French restaurants are buying food from large industrial kitchens</a> instead of cooking from scratch, <a href="http://doriegreenspan.com/2011/11/as-most-of-you-probably.html" target="_blank">Bistrot Paul Bert</a> may be the last of
a dying breed of what we outsiders consider the “classic” French bistro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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My entrée of braised beef cheeks came in an adorable
cocotte, the lid removed by the waiter and hung off the side, I was enveloped
in the aromas of slow cooked meat in red wine with winter
vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone must order the steak
frites, and that task landed with the birthday boy, who declared it one of the
best he’d ever had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bottle of Anne
Gros Richebourg 2009 chosen by our hosts was as sublime as a Burghound like me
would expect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though fine wine here
is served in tiny glasses perhaps better suited to juice as opposed to a more appropriate goblet, the effect just added to the restaurant’s charm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is nearly impossible to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> order dessert or cheese at Paul Bert, as with the prix fixe
menu it amounts to a single euro more than you would be spending ordering and
appetizer and entrée à la carte. Then, we hardly needed persuading watching
plates with Paris-Brest the size of tracker-trailer wheels whisk past, bound
for other tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there was the
cheese course, which here is served as the entire board of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fromage </i>and an eat-what-you-will policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure Parisians generally take respectable
slivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confronted with such a
magnificent display it was hard not to carve off pie-sized slices for myself of
the pungent Camembert, Morbier, and Tomme de Chevre.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday evening, generally our favorite night for going out
to dinner in New York, is a challenge in Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The French take their days of rest seriously judging by how few restaurants
are open Sundays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However on this particular night, one place in
the 16<sup>th</sup> was not only open for business, it was packed to the point
of a wait outside. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.lerelaisdubois.com/en/" target="_blank">Le Relais du Bois</a> is the sort of dimly lit, old-fashioned,
health department-be-damned type restaurant that I dream of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sole meunière came perfectly crisp and
adorned with a few boiled potatoes and a single lemon wedge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
cassoulet was bursting with nine kinds of meat and a breadcrumb crust crisp
enough to rival the crack of a crème brulée. The crème fraîche to accompany the
tarte tatin was served in a giant urn with a spoon to scoop as much as you
please.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if it was possible to feel
more relaxed and homey here, dogs even have a place at the table, at least
under the table and assuming they behave as well as Bandit did that
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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During our weekend the Paris of postcards was never far
away- the Eiffel Tower looming on the skyline behind the outdoor market, the drive
past Notre Dame on the way to dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But to have such iconic views while still tagging along for the everyday
routines of a few who live there we felt almost, for a weekend at least, like locals.</div>
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i><br />
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-60703066299846365872014-03-01T20:31:00.002-05:002014-03-01T20:31:37.032-05:00A Winning Recipe for Oscar Night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Who’s your money on for Best Picture? Did you pick <i>Gravity</i> in the office pool? Or maybe you are banking on actor favorite
<i>American Hustle</i> to take the gold statuette?
Or perhaps after the Golden Globe Awards, BAFTAs, and various Guilds
(Director, Writer, Actor, etc. etc.) you are just ready for this Oscar
campaigning to be done with so we can get a jump start on watching the nominees
for next year’s race.</div>
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No matter who you are rooting for, there’s a pretty good
chance you will be part of the 40 million people who tune in Sunday night for
the glittery dresses, tearful speeches, inevitable gaffes, and of course, those
fateful envelopes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And if you are cuddling up to the television for the
evening, you are going to need something to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given how long this show runs, might I
suggest something hearty enough for the long haul and comforting enough to
soothe the pain of watching your favorites lose (or just losing the office
pool)?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Typically food for Oscar viewing parties seems to run the
theme of elegant cocktail affair, with snack food as dolled up as the starlets
themselves- think truffled popcorn, caviar blinis, champagne cocktails, and gold-dusted chocolates. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But <i>you</i> don’t have to wear a cleavage bearing skin-tight
dress and stand in front of the cameras, so why not embrace your comfortable
digs, throw on some sweatpants and eat something a little more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">substantial</i>?<o:p></o:p></div>
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As this year would have it, there is some good inspiration
hidden in the award nominee lineup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(No,
I’m not talking serving astronaut ice cream in solidarity with Sandra Bullock.)
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Between the gorgeous shots of Rome, haunting music, and
existential crisis of the main character in Best Foreign Film nominee <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Beauty, </i>there is actually a
recipe- a recipe that ends up being a crucial part of minor character’s
personality sketch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At a dinner held in honor of a nun nicknamed
“The Saint”, a self-absorbed, pampered Catholic Cardinal tries in vain to horde
attention as he explains how to make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">coniglio
alla Ligure, </i>or Ligurian Rabbit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
he walks through the steps of cutting the rabbit into pieces, browning each in
olive oil, adding olives, tomatoes, and wine, I had a moment of
recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know this recipe!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I have been making it for
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It all started with a similar recipe from a Jamie Oliver cookbook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rabbit, however, can be hard to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And though I’m a big fan, I understand some
people can’t get past thinking “Thumper” when they see rabbit is on the
menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I adapted the recipe to work
with chicken, a fine substitute and a universal crowd pleaser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Essentially, the steps I do are the same as the cardinal’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I start by dredging a quartered chicken in
seasoned flour then brown each piece in a heavy pot (think Le Creuset) with a
good amount of olive oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the pot I
add a sliced onion, garlic, pitted olives, chopped tomatoes, and rosemary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White wine comes up to the sides of the meat
and a lid goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty-five
minutes later the house is fragrant, and dinner is made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All you need is a good loaf of crusty bread
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All ingredients in the pot</td></tr>
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In the movie, the cardinal’s grandstanding may have failed
to impress the other dinner guests, but the recipe made an impression on
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few nights after watching the film I cut up a small
chicken and made a pot of Ligurian Chicken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John and I
polished off a baguette dipping the bread into our bowls to soak up the rich braising liquid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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There will certainly be well-dressed people on Sunday night who go home empty-handed. And <i>you </i>might not win the office pool. But when it comes to viewing party food, there's no excuse to feel glum. With
dish of movie-inspired braised chicken to dig into, everyone is a winner.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Another food that
plays a prominent role is the blackberries that Solomon Northrop crushes to
make a form of ink in order to write a letter in </i>12 Years a Slave<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blackberries are not in season now, but if you can find a pint, a simple
dessert of berries with maybe a dollop of whipped cream would be a fitting
finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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1 small chicken, quartered<o:p></o:p></div>
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1/3 cup flour<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 tsp. salt<o:p></o:p></div>
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½ tsp. ground black pepper<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 T. olive oil<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 small onion, cut in half and thinly sliced<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 garlic cloves, lightly crushed<o:p></o:p></div>
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8 kalamata olives, pitted<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 Roma tomatoes, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 spring rosemary<o:p></o:p></div>
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salt and pepper to taste<o:p></o:p></div>
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Quarter a small chicken or have your butcher do it for you,
leaving skin on. Mix flour with 1 tsp.
salt and ½ tsp. black pepper on a large plate.
Dredge each piece of chicken in the flour mixture shaking off
excess. Heat olive oil in a large heavy
pot over medium high heat. Add breast
pieces skin side down. Cook until crisp
and browned. Turn over for a minute on
the other side. Remove to a plate and
let rest. Add thigh pieces to the pot skin
side down. When thighs are browned on
the skin side, turn over. Add onion and
garlic around the chicken thighs. Cook
for 3-4 minutes until onion has begun to soften. Nestle breast pieces and their juices back in the
pot with the thighs and onion. Scatter olives
and tomatoes with their juices around the chicken. Tuck two sprigs of rosemary in with the
chicken. Add wine until it comes ¾ of the
way up the sides of the meat, but do not fully cover. Bring wine to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low. Place the pot lid on leaving it slightly
askew to let out some steam and allow the wine to reduce. Cook for about 20-25 minutes until chicken is
cooked through and liquid is slightly reduced.
Add additional salt and pepper if necessary to the sauce. Remove and discard the rosemary. Serve chicken with the braising liquid and a
side of crusty bread. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-71773674694704700462014-02-05T10:29:00.002-05:002014-02-06T11:17:09.138-05:00A Boon to Regional Thai <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duck Larb, Zabb Elee</td></tr>
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Talking about the food at the delicious new Nolita
restaurant, <a href="http://www.uncleboons.com/" target="_blank">Uncle Boons</a>, my effusive recollections of dishes has been met more
than once with the same question. “What
exactly is Northern Thai food?” </div>
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This is not terribly surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even as Thai restaurants proliferate across
the United States and indeed the world (we once found <a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2011/08/eating-thai-in-namibia-and-other.html" target="_blank">Thai food in the former German settlement Swakopmund in Namibia!</a>), there is still relatively little
knowledge of the regional differences found within the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We might know our Pad Thai from our Pad See-ew
and our Massaman Curry from our Panang Curry, but do we know how they eat in
Phuket versus Chang Mai, or Bangkok versus the Isan territories in the
Northeast?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Luckily, a spate of restaurants recently popped up in New
York City to try and help us with just this kind of understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the most famous of the evangelists
of regional Thai cuisine is Andy Ricker, of Pok Pok fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to admit that even though his former restaurant Ping
remains on my list of favorite restaurant memories of Portland, Oregon, I had put
off going to his New York outposts until just this past week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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My mistake. Somehow I thought a New York version couldn’t come close to
what Ricker was doing in his home base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is of course, a ridiculous notion given that whether in New York or
Portland Ricker is trying to recreate a cuisine from the other side of the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And arguably with the ethnic diversity
and density of New York, he has better access to hard-to-find ingredients here
than just about anywhere. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ricker’s <a href="http://www.pokpokphatthai.com/home" target="_blank">Pok Pok Phat Thai</a> takes a stab at that Bangkok noodle
favorite that has become most associated with cheap and fast Thai food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The postage stamp-sized restaurant in the
Lower Eastside does indeed serve noodles cheap and fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even then, he sticks as close to
authentic as possible (sorry, no chicken version, the menu declares).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked up one with ground pork and one with
shrimp, both pungent with strong notes of tamarind, fish sauce, lime juice, and
palm sugar, minus the cloying sticky sauce that bathes most generic pad thai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole package comes wrapped in a banana
leaf, the perfect disposable plate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
it weren’t for the sub-zero New York temperatures, I could almost picture
myself eating these noodles on a plastic chair on some street curb, in the
tropical Bangkok night. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOIzIiQCrvc5F_ZxqdDaOwzA23-CDsPCil-jvqeWCceSmSN7HPF7P0VT1v9wWfeoSNegww14MIX0EJOZOJLhvDUCcC-boq-D9wTsqaCqW9G-45UWxIHp3t-LIULeZBS25MG6jaEXdMNw/s1600/P6091008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOIzIiQCrvc5F_ZxqdDaOwzA23-CDsPCil-jvqeWCceSmSN7HPF7P0VT1v9wWfeoSNegww14MIX0EJOZOJLhvDUCcC-boq-D9wTsqaCqW9G-45UWxIHp3t-LIULeZBS25MG6jaEXdMNw/s1600/P6091008.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>One of the last times John and I ate at <a href="http://zabbelee.com/contents/home.html" target="_blank">Zabb Elee</a> in the
East Village, we were surprised to run into people we knew from San Francisco.
Zabb Elee is far from being on the “hot restaurant” radar for locals let alone
out-of-towners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The white interior tries so hard to be cool that it epically fails in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But where is does succeed is with a series of
dishes that speak to the Northern Thai and Isan roots of the owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small, plump Isan sausages are sour and
garlicky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Larb, the minced meat dish
popular in Laos and the Northeast of Thailand, is fragrant with mint and lime. If you ask for it “Thai spicy” it might just make you cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A favorite dish, crispy pork belly with
pickled green peppercorns and tiny thumb sized eggplants is an indulgent,
heavenly combination, best eaten with a side of sticky rice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last fall welcomed the funnily named Uncle Boon’s to the New
York Thai scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concerned that this was
some attempt to hipsterize Thai food, again, I put off eating there for quite
some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple weeks ago, however,
I found myself in Nolita with friends looking for a place to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to give it a try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Uncle Boons is the brainchild of two former Per Se chefs and
bears a faint resemblance to other restaurants opened by classically trained
chefs who broke away from the staid formality of fine dining to reinvent more
casual food, such as David Chang did with ramen at Momofuku.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At is essence, Uncle Boons feels a bit like the Thai version
of an izakaya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there was any question what we were in for, the first menu category- “drinking snacks”-offers a
solid clue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you will be drinking
beer (or a perfectly quaffable Monastrelle rose) to wash down the dull burn
that builds from the abundant use of chilies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chilies feature prominently in a classic Isan dish of larb (on this menu spelled "laab"), here in the
form of minced lamb in a rich broth flecked with mint, shallot, and thinly
sliced cucumber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Crisp Sixpoint
pilsner and a side of sticky rice help to neutralize the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An interlude of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nam prik pla duuk, </i>a dip made of catfish and chilies served with
crisp vegetables and fried pig skin, is a nice respite from the onslaught of heat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Take friends to Uncle Boons as they’ll likely order
something you might not otherwise have tasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On my first visit I’m grateful a friend ordered the somewhat dull
sounding salad of rotisserie chicken with banana blossoms, cashews, and crispy
shallots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The zest and spice were
anything but boring- right now this is vying for “favorite item” in my book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile I gravitated towards the rarely seen blowfish
tails on the grilled section of the menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moist and meaty served with an addictive dipping sauce of lime, garlic,
and chili, this made for a sweet if not saccharine ending to the meal on both
occasions I have dined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sadly Zabb Elee makes a concession to the generic Thai food
eaters with a page of “Bangkok Rice and Noodles”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Pok Pok Phat Thai adjusted its
stridently authentic philosophy to offer a vegan version of their phat thai,
kind of beside the point in my opinion as without the fish sauce it would seem
to lose its essence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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That these restaurants are even options is an enormous
development for New Yorkers and those who visit here looking for a taste of
regional Thai cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what is
Northern Thai cuisine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is
Isan?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To that I say, grab a plate of
catfish larb at Zabb Elee and dip into a bowl of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nam prik pla duuk </i>at Uncle Boons and that chicken green curry and
sticky sweet pad thai you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thought </i>was
Thai food will soon be a distant memory. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Other places in the United States to find interesting
regional Thai cuisine<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.saipinchutima.com/" target="_blank">Lotus of Siam</a> (Las
Vegas):</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original pilgrimage for
those looking to try out Isan and Northern Thai cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They still offer a standard menu but turn to
the back of expansive book for tastes of fermented Isan sausages and
mouth-numbing green chili dip with pork skins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.saffronsandiego.com/" target="_blank">Saffron</a> (San Diego):</b>
Chef-owner Su-Mei Yu offers up lighter versions of Thai street food both at her
noodle-focused restaurant and a rotisserie chicken shop next door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop by during Thai New Year for daily
specials rarely seen at American Thai restaurants that are only featured during
that one week of the year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.pokpokpdx.com/" target="_blank">Pok Pok</a> (Portland,
Oregon):</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since my favorite Andy
Ricker restaurant, Ping, a Thai-Vietnamese streetfood concept, is now closed,
the original Pok Pok must take up the mantle of favorite Portland
restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The classics like papaya
salad have a well deserved reputation for excellence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also found the Khao Soi, a mild curried
noodle soup native to the north to be delicious. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Not to miss out on the end-of-year listacles, a look back at
my most memorable dishes from this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Note these are all restaurant creations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I had to include some of the wonderful home cooked meals I’ve been served
and cooked myself, it would be a much longer list as the year was also full of
great home cooking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In no particular
order….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">17 dishes at Hotel
the Village:</b> On my second visit to Sri Lanka I continued to be impressed with
the vast array of cooking techniques and flavor combinations that could be
presented in a single meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, nowhere
have I seen more diverse, complex, vegetable-driven preparations than at Hotel
The Village restaurant in Girithali, Sri Lanka.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were awestruck by the bounty when we weren’t busy eating from the 15
different bowls of curried vegetables, dal, pork, lake fish, and sambal
presented with two different kinds of rice. With juice, this feast came to
barely USD$10 per person.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cacio e Pepe at Lupa:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.luparestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Mario Batali’s Lupa </a>is no secret, and for
anyone who has eaten there, neither is the Cacio e Pepe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it may have taken me a while to get on
board with this program, I made up for it plenty going back four times this
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you find a dish that is “the
best”, it is hard to keep away when the craving strikes for the perfect cheese
and black pepper slicked pasta.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rabbit in Salt Bowl
with Courgettes at Duck Soup:</b> Since stumbling upon this restaurant
suggestion on a London food blog a few summers back, this has quickly become a
go-to restaurant for John and me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
small plates change constantly and we have been consistently impressed with
their range. This Labor Day weekend it was a braised rabbit dish with baby
courgettes served in a Himalayan salt bowl that captured my taste buds’ memory
and insured that as long as <a href="http://www.ducksoupsoho.co.uk/Ducksoup.html" target="_blank">Duck Soup</a> is open, we will keep coming back. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ddukbokki at Hanjan:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love Korean, in no small way because I’m
obsessed with pickled food and kimchi is perhaps the pinnacle of pickling
technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.hanjan26.com/" target="_blank">Hanjan</a>, a modern Korean
newcomer to the Flatiron district makes kimchi all right, and it is a must
every time I eat there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with the kimchi, the Pork Fat
“Ddukbokki” is now on my “must order” list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chewy rice cakes and briny sliced fish cakes mingle in a slick of spicy
pork fat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing quite like
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lamb Neck at Calliope:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should be embarrassed how often I eat lunch at <a href="http://www.calliopenyc.com/" target="_blank">Calliope</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t help it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eric Korsh and Ginevra Iverson might be
making classic (and updated classic) French food better than the French in this
Francophile city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you go once, go
for dinner, as that is where their food truly shines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is always a game bird on the menu, and
it is always delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> S</span>ome nights
I have been enchanted by specials such as a deconstructed cassoulet made with confit
veal breast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But make sure someone at
your table orders the hot and sour braised lamb neck, served off the bone with
pillow-light mascarpone agnolotti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
the stuff dreams are made of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ceviche at El Camello
Jr.:</b> When two singing taxi drivers tell you that this is their go-to place
for fish whenever they shuttle tourists the hour and a half drive from the
Cancun airport to Tulum, you know the food has got to be good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El Camello Jr. is owned by fisherman and
attached to a seafood market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fish
is so fresh you can watch the cooks cleaning the catch from an open
window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “chico” fish ceviche was so
not-small and so delicious that could have been a meal for two on its own, with
a side of excellent chips and a cerveza, of course. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Adobada at Los Tacos
No. 1:</b><a href="http://lostacos1.com/" target="_blank"> Los Tacos No. 1</a> changed my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>hyperbole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a native Californian, homesickness to me
tastes like tacos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real </i>tacos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the fancy versions popping up all over
New York from star chefs trying to reinvent the wheel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean real, honest, homemade tortilla, fresh
salsa, meat-on-a-spit tacos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then three
entrepreneurs schooled in Tijuana-style tacos brought Los Tacos No. 1 to
Chelsea Market, practically at my doorstep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now when I get the craving, a taste of home (washed down with an ice
cold Jamaica) is only a hop, skip, and jump away. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tri-color Pappardelle
with Matsutake Mushrooms at Piora: </b>I despise the word “fusion”, but even
then, I have been hard pressed to come up with a word to summarize the style at
West Village <a href="http://www.pioranyc.com/" target="_blank">newcomer Piora</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
won’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is enough to know the food is
wonderful without trying to hard (even if the service does try a bit too hard
on occasion).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A special one night last
fall of tri-color homemade pappardelle with Matsutake mushrooms, a varietal
prized in Japan, seemed a classic mash-up of Asian and Italian sensibilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever you want to call the cuisine at
Piora, all you need to know is that it is delicious. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Green Curry ramen at Bassanova:</b>
Who can chose a best ramen in New York City?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are spoiled for choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
though everyone seems to have a personal favorite for the classic variety (mine
is Hide-Chan’s spicy ramen) we are just now seeing the innovation that has been
happening in Japan migrate to our shores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A great early example is the fabled Green Curry Ramen from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bassanovanyc" target="_blank">Bassanova</a>,
originally of Japan and now in New York’s Chinatown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Push the weirdly placed mesclun greens to the
side and dip your chopsticks into the beautiful, oversized bowl to fish out
springy noodles bathing in a rich, fragrant green curry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will make you wonder why no one on this
side of the Pacific had thought of that already.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Afternoon Snack at <a href="http://www.hasakinyc.com/" target="_blank">Hasaki:</a></b> The name “Afternoon Snack” was clearly designed to make one
laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is “snack” fit for a giant,
or perhaps an Olympic sprinter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for
us mere mortals who get hungry at lunch time, this spread is a sampler of just
about everything wonderful this authentic East Village Japanese restaurant
serves: green salad, red miso soup, tempura vegetables and shrimp, grilled miso
salmon, two seaweed salads, and the chef’s sushi and roll selection of the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At $18, it might just be the best
value “snack” in New York City. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my capacity
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-59475094244174366672013-12-14T16:06:00.002-05:002013-12-14T16:06:35.203-05:00Sanma Comes but Once a Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“You are just like Japanese!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The woman sitting next to me at the bar nearly
jumped out of her seat with surprise. For the last hour she had been
conspicuously studying my moves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting
alone at the bar of this small izakaya off The Strip in Las Vegas I was a bit
of an anomaly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amongst the tightly
packed tables, I was one of only a handful of non-Japanese faces. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just then I had removed the spine from a long, thin fish in
one movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A moment earlier, perhaps sensing
this wasn’t my first time eating <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanma</i>,
my curious neighbor had leaned over and mimed my next steps for eating this
strange fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She indicated I was to
grasp the tail between my thumb and fingers and pulling back in a clean motion
bringing the tail toward the head of the fish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I followed her advice and like that, two salt crusted,
slightly charred fillets were separated from the head and the tail both attached by the spine. I had performed the motion, she said, “just like
Japanese.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was my first experience with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_saury" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanma, </i>a Japanese fish</a> that makes its short appearance each
fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could say I had known
what I was ordering but, like most of my dining experiences at this restaurant,
the discovery was a happy accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had learned eating at <a href="http://www.raku-grill.com/" target="_blank">Abriya Raku</a> to defer to the specials board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if the writing on their movable
blackboard menu was illegible and the waiter’s description incomprehensible, if
I just pointed to a few items these would eventually show up, and I was never
disappointed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bones removed with the guidance of my new Japanese friend, I
found <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanma</i> has the sort of rich,
firm flesh that I find delicious in other small oily fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mackerel, sardines, and fresh anchovies are
all similar in this way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It would be a while before I saw <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanma</i> again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fall it
made a brief appearance at the Lobster Place, the fish wholesaler with a retail
outlet in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Intrigued, I figured it couldn’t be too difficult to prepare at
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A</span> bit of research revealed <a href="http://justonecookbook.com/blog/recipes/sanma-shioyaki-salt-grilled-pacific-saury/" target="_blank">recipes that did not differ much</a> from what I often do to sardines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guts removed by the fishmonger (apparently
some Japanese prefer cooking it with the organs still inside), I made long
slashes in the skin and salted the flesh for a quick fifteen-minute cure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under the broiler the thin fish needed no
more than 4 minutes per side for the flesh to be nicely charred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A squeeze of lemon and quick spine-removing gesture later
and we were sitting down to a light supper of fish that you normally don’t find
outside of Japanese restaurants. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next week at the market we were back hoping for a repeat
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanma </i>dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, in place of the whole fish were thin,
boneless fillets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without the slender
body and delicate spine the fish lost a bit of its magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That day we passed and opted instead for the
humble whole sardine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, a fish
that comes but once a year deserves to be treated with the utmost respect and little
does more to honor a fish than cooking it whole, just like Japanese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></span></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-56927591954555776492013-11-01T13:36:00.001-04:002013-11-01T13:36:20.958-04:00Bánh Mì Version 2.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meatball <span style="text-align: left;">bánh mì at </span>Bánh Mì Saigon in New York</span></td></tr>
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I remember when no one in New York knew what a bánh
mì
was. This was a time before Instagram and Top Chef, when food porn was limited
to <i>Saveur</i> and the weekly dose from
the New York Times Dining section. Unless
you were Vietnamese or had backpacked in Vietnam, the sandwich of cold cuts, pate, and pickled vegetables was a complete unknown. </div>
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When was this long ago time, you ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only about ten years ago, actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My how things change. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was in the backpacker category of the b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì knowledgable, though I can't say my first experience was a positive one</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rushing to pack and get out
of Saigon for an overnight bus trip, I persuaded my brother we should buy two
uncertain looking sandwiches from a street vendor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unbeknownst to us, Ho Chi Minh was the
perfect place to be picking up the sandwich, as it was there that the b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh
m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span>,
in its classic form, was invented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately, my brother and I broke the cardinal rule of b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh
m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span>:
eat immediately. These are not sandwiches designed to be packed away for late
night snack on a long bus ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
our soggy, smelly sandwiches were left behind in a rest station trash bin. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mackerel Bánh Mì at Num Pang</td></tr>
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While I was living in California a few years back, I came to
New York for a visit and was surprised to find the b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span> had taken the city by storm. It
seemed shops devoted to the sandwich were popping up everywhere, as with the
mini-chain <a href="http://www.baoguette.com/" target="_blank">Baoguette</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it appeared
<a href="http://www.banhmisaigonnyc.com/" target="_blank">every Chinatown </a>coffee shop had signs placed in the window advertising b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh
m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span>
alongside pictures of dark tapioca pearls bobbing in plastic cups of bubble tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(How the Taiwanese sweet milk tea drink
became companions with a Vietnamese sandwich is an investigation for another
time.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Laotian <span style="text-align: justify;">b</span><span style="text-align: justify;">á</span><span style="text-align: justify;">nh m</span><span style="text-align: justify;">ì shop opens in Tribeca</span></span></td></tr>
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Coming back to New York a couple of years later it seemed
the b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh
m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span>
had so quickly moved from obscurity into the mainstream it was already on to
Phase Two: reinvention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While walking
through the Village I stumbled upon a small shop front near Union Square, <a href="http://www.numpangnyc.com/" target="_blank">Num Pang</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A look at the menu revealed a list
of sandwiches that appeared similar to b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span> but, well, different. “Pulled
Duroc Pork with Honey” and “Peppercorn Catfish with House Made Sweet Soy Sauce”
sounded innocuously <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asian</i>, but the
rest of the sandwich ingredients- cucumber, pickled carrot, cilantro and chili
mayo- put these squarely in the traditional b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span> category. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Num Pang’s Cambodian-style bánh mì clearly hit a nerve with New Yorkers. Now, living back in the city, there are so many Num Pang locations I
only need to walk two blocks from my West Village apartment when I get a
craving for their Khmer sausage sandwich piled high with pickled carrot and slicked with a sheen of chili mayo. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">French Dip Duck Confit <span style="text-align: justify;">b</span><span style="text-align: justify;">á</span><span style="text-align: justify;">nh m</span><span style="text-align: justify;">ì from Khe-Yosk</span></span></td></tr>
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With Cambodian versions and Vietnamese versions it was just
a matter of time before that other border country, Laos, chimed in with a
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I remember when there was no b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, just ten years on, I live in a New York
era of so many kinds of b<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">á</span>nh m<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ì</span> and restaurants that serve them, I could eat a different
version every day months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it comes
to this sandwich <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">none</i> was bad, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some </i>was good, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> is definitely better. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-52211855613589621992013-10-02T12:25:00.000-04:002013-10-02T12:25:28.599-04:00130 Miles of Food<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Imagine you are taking a California road trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are starting in Santa Monica, ultimately
destined for San Diego. But before leaving the swaying palms of this famous
stretch of beach, you stop for a bite to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It doesn’t really matter which restaurant, diner or taco shack you end
up at, in this imaginary Southern California the eateries of this town all
serve the same local specialty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll
call this special dish “Eggs Santa Monica”: poached eggs perched atop avocado,
oven roasted tomatoes, and a thick slice of grilled country bread.</div>
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Fortified, you hop in your car for the 30-mile drive to Long
Beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have heard that though Long
Beach and Santa Monica fall within the same county lines, there is a completely
different specialty here, a dish that has a place on every Long Beach
restaurant menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll call it, “Eggs
Long Beach”: two fried eggs on black beans with pico de gallo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So your trip continues, stopping 20 miles later in Newport
Beach, 30 miles after that in San Clemente, then Carlsbad, then La Jolla, and
finally downtown San Diego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At each city
stop you find a dish that is both completely unique to that town, found in
virtually every restaurant in that town, yet almost nowhere outside those town
limits. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winemaker Cyril Audoin (left), me and a travel companion</td></tr>
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Sounds a bit wild?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well for anyone that has traversed the famous routes of France,
particularly along the verdant Burgundy corridor, that is pretty much the
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The distance from Chablis, the northernmost part of Burgundy
to Macon in the south is approximately 134 miles, the same distance from Santa
Monica to San Diego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In place of the
pristine California coastline, the road trip in Burgundy is graced with mile upon mile of some of the world’s best grapevines and, as I found on a
recent wine tasting trip, excellent food.</div>
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With each village boasting it’s own unique wine identity-
from the ancient oyster shell bed that gives Chablis is distinctive taste to
sun-ripened chardonnays of the C<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ô</span>te Chalonnaise- perhaps I shouldn’t have
been so surprised to find the same proud individuality can be found in their
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oeufs meurette- poached eggs in red wine sauce</td></tr>
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Just north of the Burgundy border, in a small village in
Champagne, the local bistro was serving one of the most famous dishes of its
neighbor appellation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oeufs meurette,</i> is a dish of poached
eggs served in a red wine (classically Burgundy) sauce often with a scattering
of bacon lardon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here the red wine was
reduced down to an unctuous concentration but retained enough acidity to act as
a foil for the golden yolk as the punctured sack released its insides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wiped the last drops of the egg and wine
sauce from my plate with a torn piece of baguette, it occurred to me that
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A few days later sitting down to an al fresco lunch in
Fixin, a village in the north of the C<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ô</span>te d’Or, poached eggs were again on the
menu, but here with a whiff of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fromage</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our drive from Chablis to the heart of
Burgundy, our car had passed the village of <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">É</span>poisses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in that village that they make a famous
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puddle, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> sauce for two poached
eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our winemaker host, Cyril Audoin
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find there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, as we continued our
drive south, never again did I encounter the eggs in <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">É</span>poisses. The decadent slurry of
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Rhone Valley, notably in a dish of scrambled eggs with black truffle, but for
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If ever there was a way to layer meats in a pan and preserve
them- suspended in aspic or sealed beneath a layer of fat- it seems the French
have done it all. Burgundy, particularly this mouth-watering stretch of the
Cote d’Or, has (surprise) a terrine you can find almost exclusively there: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jambon persill</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">é</span>.
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Easter ham).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shredded pork is set
with a “jelly” of seasoned white wine and a small forest of parsley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result is a lovely mess of a terrine,
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Our traveling party found this dish practically everywhere
in the C<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ô</span>te
d’Or. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the supermarket in Beaune, we
had the butcher cut off a brick sized slab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We nibbled on the ham for days back in our rented house in Chassagne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On restaurant menus it was a given that it
would appear on a charcuterie spread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was no surprise then at lunch in Givry, hosted by winemaker Pascal Danjean, a
small bowl-sized <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jambon persill</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">é</span></i> materialized as part of our
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It would be near impossible to imagine the drive from Santa
Monica to San Diego, or any 130-mile drive in the United States for that
matter, claiming as many unique, traditional dishes as I found in Burgundy. To
think Burgundy is only one of twenty-seven <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">regions</i>
in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a place is best explored
through its food, looks like I have some more road trips, and a lot more
eating, in my future.</div>
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-6093286536004339622013-09-06T18:53:00.001-04:002013-09-06T18:53:23.242-04:00Raw Summer Squash Salad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_72jxt-Wo0e4wBsQSG5arCMcmQmjmFx5Q9s4fy1I-UYB3OlPht1rDRS5vpcAMA-LnAYHH871LFiAQH7AyZfSMyNT8NxdtkljvS3PuiwjcQ2LWLrvUq1hdVK-NN1pEkj2zMmOAdmKeWb8/s1600/P8201273.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_72jxt-Wo0e4wBsQSG5arCMcmQmjmFx5Q9s4fy1I-UYB3OlPht1rDRS5vpcAMA-LnAYHH871LFiAQH7AyZfSMyNT8NxdtkljvS3PuiwjcQ2LWLrvUq1hdVK-NN1pEkj2zMmOAdmKeWb8/s400/P8201273.JPG" width="400" /></a>Friends of mine recently signed up for a CSA share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, that program with the mystery
boxes. Community Supported Agriculture they call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once a week people in communities all over
America pick up or are delivered a cornucopia of local farmers delights-
asparagus and peas in April, corn and tomatoes in August, and the usual
assortments of greens and other good-for-you produce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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But as my friends have discovered, more often than not,
their box includes an abundance of certain vegetables that, though they may
grow like weeds this time of year, are not part of their regular cooking
repertoire for two adults and two children under the age of two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(“Help!” She once wrote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What do I do with all these radishes?”)<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the upside, the couple has grown increasingly fond of
some vegetables they would never have purchased in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kohlrabi, for instance, now regularly gets
sliced and added to stir-fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But sometimes, particularly in this abundant time of the
year, the mystery box overwhelms their culinary imagination and leaves them
facing an unused pile of produce with no clue what the next move should be. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After a recent visit I was the beneficiary of my friends’ excess,
helping them to make a smoky eggplant dip out of an oversized version of the
purple nightshade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also took home
several summer squash and zucchini vowing to use it in a way that would be
novel for me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As a child, the texture of cooked zucchini and yellow squash
led me to dramatic gagging episodes at the dining room table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I have only somewhat matured past that
stage.) A raw salad on the other had would protect against any displeasing
texture and bring new possibilities for seasoning with fresh herbs, nuts, and
maybe even cheese.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mandolin made quick work of the squash, slicing it into
paper-thin sheets in a matter of minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I then squeezed over the juice of a couple lemons and let the two hang
for a couple of hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The acid from the
lemon was just strong enough to gently soften the squash without
disintegrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To finish dressing the
salad it needed little more than good olive oil, salt, and pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I had some basil on hand I tossed in a
good handful of torn leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For crunch
I threw in some slivered almonds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finally for a bit of tang, some crumbled cotija cheese.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That night a few girlfriends who were over for dinner
gobbled the salad down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two days later,
I made another batch for myself for a light lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The combination of squash, cheese, nuts and
herbs I settled on was delightful but I could have easily substituted pine nuts
for the almonds, parsley or mint for the basil, and feta or shaved parmesan for
the cotija and would have been perfectly happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Between the CSA’s, farmer’s market and friends’ personal gardens, I’m
sure I’ll have plenty of chances to keep experimenting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Summer Squash Salad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 large zucchini<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3 T. olive oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">handful of basil, torn or cut in a chiffonade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 oz. Cotija cheese (feta would be nice, as
would shaved Parmesan)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¼ cup slivered almonds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slice the zucchini and yellow squash thin on a
mandolin or with a thin, sharp knife. Squeeze the juice of two lemons
over. Let sit for a couple of hours until the squash has softened a bit
and soaked up the lemon. Toss with olive oil, basil, crumbled cheese,
almonds, and salt and pepper to taste. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></span></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-83117434129803051862013-07-16T13:47:00.000-04:002013-07-16T14:07:09.885-04:00Vacation Smackdown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>OR, How to Eat Your
Way to a Holiday</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sri Lankan Pork Curry and Curried Green Beans</td></tr>
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There are many ways to choose a vacation, but few (at least
that I’ve heard of) involve a weekend-long smackdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say, John and I have never been
the types to take travel lightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our holiday
destination this year wouldn’t just present itself in the form of a friend’s wedding,
or family reunion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, our vacation location
would have to work for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Several months ago we had been tossing a few ideas back and
forth for a late June holiday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew some
serious discussions would need to be had, and fast, if we were going to book
flights and rooms before prices turned astronomical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After batting around a few locales (Burma-
monsoon season, Peru- winter, Nepal- too hot) we whittled the global list of
possibilities down to a surviving two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-roads-lead-to-sardinia.html" target="_blank">Sardinia has long loomed in our gustatory and beach fantasies</a> and yet
never had either of us set foot on those fabled sandy shores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, <a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-create-trust-first-eat-fire.html" target="_blank">both of us had been to Sri Lanka, but we had such a good time on our last visit</a>, we considered visiting
for a second time in just two years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With no clear champion between the finalists, John decided
the best way to form a conclusion was to have the countries face off in a
weekend-long analysis of the pros and cons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were having a vacation-off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Geographically and culturally Sri Lanka and Sardinia fall on
opposite ends of the spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to
measure these against each other we decided on some clear categories for
comparison- logistics (flight times, number of legs), cost (flights, hotels,
in-country transport, expected food prices), and (obviously) food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is worth mentioning that because Sri Lanka
and Sardinia are both blessed with the sort of fairy tale beaches one thinks
only exists in the glossy pages of travel magazines, we called the beach
requirement a draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Surprisingly, even though Sri Lanka is a full 4000 miles
further away from New York than Sardinia as the crow flies, it was not
necessarily quicker to get to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Limited
flight times and the number of connections meant total travel time to either
destination was about the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As for cost, Sri Lanka would be the more expensive plane
ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, we read enough travel
blogs to know that we should expect to pay handsomely for mere decent
accommodations during the Sardinian high season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And food, well, even if a plate of pasta in
Sardinia is cheap for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Italy, </i>nothing
can beat the $6 per person curry and rice specials in Sri Lanka where dishes emerge
from the kitchen in quantities no person in their right mind could finish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cookbooks used for reference in the cooking smackdown</td></tr>
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That just left the cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since we are not the types to travel to Thailand and end up eating at a
German schnitzel restaurant, the local foods would need to be meals we not just
tolerated but loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was we
started the weekend with the Sardinian specialty, fregola, and finished the smack down with a Sri Lankan
pork curry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2011/11/sardinia-by-way-of-fregula.html" target="_blank">The fregola I cooked </a>slowly with diced tomatoes, sweet
sausage, and chorizo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stirred in
parsley at the end for a good herbal kick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John lapped up his dish and declared that it should be a permanent
additional to our household dinner rotation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Two days of research and debate later I was working on our
pork curry lunch when it hit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
made up my mind where we should go this summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But first we needed to
eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fregola with sweet sausage and chorizo</td></tr>
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John had been out running errands and walked back into our
apartment to find the powerful aromas of cinnamon, ginger, and lemongrass wafting from a wok where the aromatics were simmering away with cubes of lean pork shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
stood back from the stove as he leaned over to inspect my work and dip his
finger in the sauce for a taste. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think I know what we should do.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He cocked an eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Really?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yep.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I handed him a
fork and he speared a cube of meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
tipped his head back and closed his eyes. A look of blissful meditation passed
over him while he chewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He let out a slight
groan and slowly fluttered open his lids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Want to guess?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A smile crossed his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Well, if you’re thinking what I’m thinking right now….”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The aroma of cinnamon, fiery heat of the curries, beauty of
the white sandy beaches, and smiling faces of the people on this Pearl of the
Indian Ocean were all calling our names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For this year at least, the smackdown was settled and Sri Lanka declared
the victor. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sri Lankan Spiced
Pork<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(adapted from “The
Exotic Tastes of Paradise” by Felicia Wakwella Sorensen)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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2 lb. lean, boneless pork shoulder, cut into 1 inch cubes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Salt<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pepper<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 T. vegetable oil<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 shallots<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 inch piece of ginger<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 cloves garlic<o:p></o:p></div>
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6 curry leaves, or 3 bay leaves<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 inch piece lemongrass<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 inch piece cinnamon<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 T. paprika<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 T. ground coriander<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 T. ground cumin<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 tsp. chili powder<o:p></o:p></div>
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¼ cup white vinegar<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 ½ c. water<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pat pork cubes dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Season on all sides with salt and pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heat oil in a large wok over medium high
heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working in four batches, brown
pork on all sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remove browned pork
to a platter using a slotted spoon and repeat with remaining uncooked
pork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While pork is browning, peel and thinly slice shallots. Peel
ginger and julienne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peel
garlic and finely chop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once all pork is
browned and resting on the platter, add shallots, ginger and garlic to the wok (if wok is dry, add additional 1 T.
vegetable oil).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stir fry garlic and
ginger for two minutes until fragrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Add curry leaves, lemongrass, cinnamon stick, paprika, coriander, cumin,
and chili powder. Stir-fry for another 60 seconds until fragrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add vinegar, water, and browned pork to the
pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring to a simmer then cover with a
lid and reduce heat to medium low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cook
covered until pork is very tender, about forty-five minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remove lid and return heat to medium
high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simmer until liquid has reduced to
a thick sauce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taste and adjust
seasoning with additional salt and pepper if desired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serve with rice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></o:p></div>
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I sometimes pity my mother.
Trying to feed me as a child couldn’t have been easy. There was a crazy diet and a long vegetarian
phase, but those came later. Harder must
have been the elementary years. When
most kids were happily munching on Cheerios and PB&J’s, I would blanket
reject entire categories of foods. Sandwiches: gross. Juice: too sweet. Yogurt: only acceptable direct from the
refrigerator- I wouldn’t touch it once it had turned to liquid sitting in my
lunch box for a couple of hours. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Breakfast in particular was a daily battle. I hated cereal,
cold and hot. Toast was out of the question,
especially when it was the whole-wheat bread my mother painstakingly made from
scratch each week (oh what I wouldn’t give for that bread today!). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, after many a sunrise conflict, my mother brokered a
compromise: I could eat anything I wanted for breakfast, as long as I ate
something. So for my entire sixth grade
year, each morning I would wake up and grate cheese. You see bread, even my mother’s thick wheat
bread, was okay as long as it sandwiched gooey melted cheddar and was toasted
to buttery perfection on a skillet.
Grated cheddar was the staple ingredient in my other breakfast go-to that year, when spread between two tortillas and toasted until the cheese oozed out the
sides. So I spent an entire year eating
grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas for breakfast, which in my opinion were two perfect foods, perfectly suited for the most important meal of the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In some ways much has changed since those years. I still eschew cold cereals but have grown to
love those multi-grain hot cereals and rolled oats that I cringed at as a
child. I’ll eat toast, as long as it is
from a good bakery, and eggs, as long as they are fresh from a farm. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But part of this rebellious breakfast spirit still lingers. On a recent morning, for instance, none of my
usual choices looked appetizing. But
staring up from a basket in the pantry were some gnarled Okinawa potatoes I had
recently purchased. I pierced a couple
and microwaved them for a few minutes until tender. A pat of butter dripped and disappeared down
the chasms formed in the sweet, soft purple flesh. A sprinkle of sea salt later
and breakfast was served. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For anyone who appreciates <a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2012/03/92-years-new-nom-wah-tea-parlor.html" target="_blank">the ritual of dim sum</a>, the idea
of savory dumplings for breakfast is far from foreign. Asians in general take a much less sweet approach
to their morning larder. Dumplings, pho,
<a href="http://photheloveoffood.blogspot.com/2011/11/of-food-hangovers-and-turkey-wings.html" target="_blank">congee</a>- these are the nourishment of early morning hours in their countries
of origin. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is in that vein perhaps that I have added a new, nontraditional,
non-Western breakfast to my occasional morning routine. On a recent visit to Beijing street-food
style restaurant <a href="http://vanessasdumplinghouse.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa’s Dumpling House</a>, I was thrilled to discover
their delectable handmade dumplings are available to take home frozen, by the
bag of thirty. Not living exactly near
either their East Village or Williamsburg locations I thought what better way to
satisfy my dumpling cravings than keeping a ready supply in the freezer at all
times?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Little did I realize that such a craving would not hit at
the usually mid-afternoon snack time hour, or dinnertime, but around nine am
one weekday morning as I trolled through the cupboards looking for something
other than oatmeal to fill my rumbling belly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Four dumplings went straight from the freezer and into a
small pot of boiling water. Eight
minutes later I fished them out with a slotted spoon, deposited them in a bowl,
and doused the dish with black vinegar and a good squeeze of Sriracha. Eating with a side of miso soup, it was a
breakfast my eleven-year old self would have been proud of. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My poor mother. All those years I thought I was being a rebel, insisting on breakfast that was anything but normal fare in our small California town. Turns out the sort of savory food I was craving, millions of people were already eating, granted most of them were half way around the world. Thanks to handmade frozen dumplings, interesting sweet potatoes, good bakeries, and well, my own adult kitchen, I can now eat whatever I want for breakfast, as long as I eat <i>some</i>thing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arepa Maker in Cartagena, Colombia</td></tr>
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When <a href="http://www.caracasarepabar.com/" target="_blank">Caracas Arepa Bar </a>first opened it would be safe to
assume that 95% of the hipsters lining up outside the doors of their diminutive
East Village shop had never tasted an <i>arepa</i>
before. Now, nearly ten years after the first store opened on East 7<sup>th</sup>
Street, the love of New Yorkers for Caracas Arepa Bar’s signature item has
allowed the trailblazer to open outposts in Williamsburg and Rockaway Beach
(fate TBD post-Sandy) as well as double the size of the original by expanding
to a sit-down restaurant next door.</div>
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New Yorkers, it would seem, have discovered <i>arepas</i> are not just a passing food fad
bound to go the way of the cupcake shop, but a real, honest meal that is
completely crave-worthy on a daily basis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like many, my first taste of an <i>arepa</i> was at Caracas- the restaurant, not the Venezuelan capital
for which it is named. I instantly fell
for the pita pocket-like cornbread stuffed with various grilled meats, cheese,
and vegetables. Having been weaned on
tacos in Southern California, the concept of a corn-based wrapper enveloping
meat was not new. But these were a different beast altogether. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Unlike a taco, an <i>arepa</i>
is a thick patty of cornmeal. The dough
is then cooked- grilled, steamed, baked, or fried. A slit is then made to form
a pocket in which any manner of filling can be stuffed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is to Caracas Arepa Bar I owe thanks for my excitement
around a recent trip to Cartagena, Colombia.
In Colombia, like Venezuela, <i>arepas
</i>are a common street food consumed by rich and poor, from the narrow,
impeccably preserved lanes of the Old City to the shantytowns and working class
suburbs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It did not take more than a hundred feet of walking on our
first evening in the walled city of this UNESCO World Heritage site before we
ran into our first vendor. The disks of
partially cooked dough were piled high the man’s cart like a mound of white
hockey pucks. The vendor fanned a small mound of charcoal beneath the grill attached
to the side of the cart where he would throw on the <i>arepas </i>to reheat as customers called out orders. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating arepas in Old City Cartagena</td></tr>
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It wasn’t until the next day, however, when we went out
searching specifically for this national dish to fill our hungry mid-day
bellies. We found what we were looking
for in front of the line for the Hay Festival- a posh literary gathering- the
vendor doling out food to well-dressed intellectual types waiting in line for an
author event. It appeared even the
bookish get hungry for <i>arepas</i> from
time to time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At our signal two <i>arepas
</i>were thrown on the grill. Once
charred, the vendor cut a deep pocket and into which he spread a bit of
butter. He opened two cubbies holding
grated cheese and cooked ground beef. He stuffed the filling into the pocket to
the point of nearly bursting. Topped
with a bit of hot sauce and washed down with a <i>limonata,</i> it was an ideal lunch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Out at a beach resort a day later, it was a pleasure to find
the local specialty on the menu as a breakfast item. Here the pocket was stuffed with deliciously
seasoned minced beef and raw egg before being sealed and dropped into a deep
fryer. Crackling crisp on the outside,
the shell broke open to reveal a deeply meaty, moist interior. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As it stands, it may take a flight to South America to find
myself in a place where <i>arepas</i> are as
common as tacos or a slice of pizza. But
if Caracas Arepa Bar keeps spreading the gospel of their signature food, maybe
more people will discover what a bunch of intrepid eaters in NYC did a few
years ago: <i>arepas </i>are damn<i> delicioso.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Have you had enough of the Year End Lists? In case you haven’t been paying
attention, there have been a few. I’ve
seen <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/dining/reviews/12-restaurant-triumphs-of-2012.html?ref=dining&_r=0" target="_blank">Best Restaurants</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/12/19/dining/20121219-BESTOFDISHES.html?ref=dining" target="_blank">Best Dishes</a>, <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/top-25-food-trends" target="_blank">Top Food Trends</a>, <a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/12/the-best-fast-food-of-2012.html?ref=pop_serious_eats" target="_blank">Best Fast Food</a>, not to
mention psychic predictions as to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/dining/after-crispy-pig-ears-10-trends-for-2013.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">what we can all expect to be eating, trending, and “besting” in 2013</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll leave the “Best of” lists to the professionals. But even in my own universe, food seems to
cycle, each year bringing its own personal set of top eats. 2010, for example, would certainly have been
The Year of the Duck. Once John found
out I could sear a mean Muscovy, he put in a request for said duck dinner at
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2011 could have been a few things, but I’ll give a special
mention to the clay pot. A simple unglazed bean pot inspired many a long
simmered dish from Jamaican goat curry to rabbit ragu. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Which brings me to the Top Trends in My Kitchen of 2012. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Saturday Fish<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Once John learned how to navigate the tourists and
overwhelming selection of fish and seafood at <a href="http://www.lobsterplace.com/" target="_blank">The Lobster Place</a>, our fish
consumption skyrocketed. Walking home from
a Friday night or Saturday morning workout, he might swing through and pick
up whatever was looking good at that moment.
Opah belly, ahi tuna, hamachi collar, fresh Florida shrimp- we threw the
net wide. I'd prepare the fish simply and we'd eat it alongside a salad. Our Saturday lunches became infinitely healthier. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Wide World of
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It all started with John’s famous sweet potatoes, roasted
with garlic and rosemary, and the occasional dollop of duck fat. Feeling bold one day, we swapped out the
sweets for Purple Peruvian potatoes. The
entrance of <a href="http://foragerscitygrocer.com/" target="_blank">Foragers Market</a> to our neighborhood brought the discovery of
sublime, creamy Red Bliss potatoes from a local farm, so far removed from the
typical grocery store variety it was like I was discovering the potato for the
first time. Then came the revelation of
the Japanese variety from <a href="http://bodhitreefarm.com/" target="_blank">BodhiTree Farm </a>at <a href="http://www.abingdonfarmersmarket.com/" target="_blank">Abingdon Square Farmer’sMarket</a>. These tiny, misshapen tubers
were so intensely sweet I could eat them practically by themselves with little
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New best practice for dinner parties: always have homemade
ice cream in the freezer. The gift of a
<a href="http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/cuisinart-stainless-steel-electric-ice-cream-maker/?cm_src=AutoRel" target="_blank">Cuisinart ice cream maker</a> last Christmas turned into the unexpected dinner
party savior I never knew I needed but apparently did. Keeping ice cream on hand
saved me from having to make one more dish on the day of the party, while still
reaping the benefits of serving a homemade dessert. From milk chocolate with Oreos, to lemon
sorbet, to pumpkin with candied ginger, there was an ice cream recipe to fit
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What will be trending in the months to come? Will John start adding pineapple to his berry
smoothies? Will coriander replace cumin
as my favorite spice in the cabinet?
Will potatoes take a backseat as we sample the international rainbow of
rice? Only time will tell. But if it happens in my kitchen, you will
probably be reading about it right here, on Pho the Love of Food. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-7689225521869254452012-12-17T15:12:00.000-05:002012-12-17T15:12:01.818-05:00From the Slanted Door to Your Front Door<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is rare I cook four recipes from a book in a year, let
alone a week. Yet since the moment I
received <a href="http://www.slanteddoor.com/family#charles" target="_blank">Charles Phan</a>’s new cookbook, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vietnamese-Home-Cooking-Charles-Phan/dp/1607740532" target="_blank">Vietnamese Home Cooking</a>, </i>I have only been able to put it down long enough to pick up my
chef’s knife and start chopping. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is no secret I love Vietnamese food (my blog <i>is </i>named after the country’s most famous
dish). And <a href="http://www.slanteddoor.com/" target="_blank">The Slanted Door</a>, Phan’s deservedly popular San Francisco restaurant,
has also long been one of my favorites in that city. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, I will admit I was skeptical the first time I
pulled up a stool at the sleek and sunny restaurant bar with its sweeping bay
views. How could this chic space
possibly remain true to the food I had devoured on roadside plastic stools and
make shift restaurant shacks? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then came the crepe. The Slanted Door may have boasted central air conditioning and walk-in refrigerators,
but the golden pan-fried crepe presented to me, stuffed with bean
sprouts, pork and shrimp, was a near perfect replica of one I had eaten some
years before in Saigon on an oppressively humid day sitting outdoors on the dirt floor of restaurant tucked down a narrow alley. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ever since I have been wondering how to make that crepe at
home. Would it ever be possible to form
that perfect golden batter tinted with turmeric and scented with coconut milk
in my own kitchen?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks to <i>Vietnamese
Home Cooking</i> I can now definitively answer “yes”. To be sure, this book is not Vietnamese cooking
lite. Phan’s recipes sometimes require
upwards of fifteen ingredients. But they
are the sort of Vietnamese pantry staples- tamarind, rice flour, fish sauce-
that once stocked, will keep you in good supply long enough to work through
much of this book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As devoted as he is to creating authentic recipes, Phan remains a
sympathetic teacher. In a recipe for
“Hue Rice Dumplings” he demonstrates creating the batter and forming the
dumplings in six beautiful, full color photos accompanied by nine, clear-cut
steps. For “Bánh Cuón: Rice Crepes with Pork and
Mushrooms”, he explains how to make the proper steaming contraption (a pot that
would be sold specifically for this purpose in Vietnam) using a common pasta
pot with steamer insert, fabric, and a 16-inch hose clamp easily purchased from
Home Depot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have already worked my way through a few of the simpler,
everyday recipes (Lemongrass Chicken, Halibut Vermicelli with Dill) as well as
some more time consuming (Pork Clay Pot with Young Coconut Juice). As for the crepe, or <i>B</i><i>ánh X</i><i>èo</i>,
it was as I had always hoped. Thanks to an excellent teacher and his well written book, my crepe emerged as an authentic taste of Vietnam, cooked simply, at
home. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i><br />
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New York City: Hurricane Sandy<br />
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<u>Monday<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Breakfast: Sky is eerily quiet but somehow foreboding. (Or am I just feeling that way because of all
the doom and gloom warnings on CNN?) I
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Lunch: It started to rain a bit on my walk to the gym-
perhaps the only place in Manhattan that is packed with people today. Realized lunch will have to be at home. Even though it is barely drizzling every
restaurant is closed. Even Starbucks. Reheat curried butternut squash soup and
toast a slice of <a href="http://www.amysbread.com/" target="_blank">Amy’s Bread's Tangy Sourdough</a>.
Spent afternoon baking cookies to pass time with the little I could
scrounge up in the pantry. Came up with
some rather delicious coconut-salted caramel thumbprint cookies.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Dinner: It’s here.
The power is out. The wind is
wild. Something hit my window not long
ago. I know I’m not supposed to be near
the windows but peaked out anyway. My
window planter is broken. Probably just
as well as not much more than moss has grown there in the last 12 months. Not sure how long the power will be out but
figure I should start eating the most perishable items. I don a headlamp, light the gas on my stove
with matches, and sear a small piece of skirt steak. I slice the steak and eat it in front of the
fireplace with tortillas and salsa verde. Beer is thankfully cold. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Tuesday <o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Breakfast: Woke up to a chilly apartment. It is still windy
but doesn’t appear to be raining. Still no electricity. Should probably get started on those farm
eggs. Fry an egg and have it on the last
of the sourdough with some Vermont salted butter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dunch? Anyway, I didn’t eat until
4. Getting stir crazy, I packed a
backpack and hiked the 2.25 miles to the closest gym with power. Worked out, showered, recharged. On the hike home, like a bright shining light
from heaven, I spotted a sushi restaurant with power! Two rolls and a Sapporo later I was feeling
more like a human being. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dinner: Started to think about the perishables. Boiled the rest of the eggs. Moved the cheese
and the rest of the beer to the freezer (very important). Reheated the last of some cheese and chicken
enchiladas from a few nights earlier. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Wednesday<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Breakfast: Poppy seed bread, a gift from John’s mom, was
starting to defrost so I pulled it out.
Will be munching on this for days, I think.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lunch: Long walk, over 3 miles, to meet my cousin for ramen
in midtown. It is a different world up there in the electricity zone. Tourists shopping, suits lunching. Very different from vacant downtown. It was
worth every step for spicy ramen with extra pork and scallions at <a href="http://hidechanramen.com/" target="_blank">Hide-Chan</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curried Chickpeas with Spinach and Peas</td></tr>
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Dinner: Made it back home just as the sun was setting. With no streetlights probably safest to get
home before dark. It is Halloween. Weird mix of people out on the dark streets:
kids in costumes holding parent’s hands; gay couples, hands entwined dipping
into the few open, candlelit bars; refugees, suitcases trailing, headed uptown
to escape powerless, waterless apartments.
I lit the stove and fried up chickpeas with onions, garlic, curry,
spinach, peas (last two salvaged from the leaking, defrosting freezer). Steamed
rice, just enough for one. Felt
luxuriously homemade, eating by candle and firelight. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Urban Camping Food- Tuna + Hardboiled Egg</td></tr>
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<u>Thursday<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Breakfast: More poppy seed bread and cheese (staying
somewhat cool in the freezer). Sadly
tossed out two duck carcasses I had been saving to make stock. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lunch: Hardboiled egg, tuna, rosemary crackers. This scavenging thing is getting old.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dinner: The hike uptown today was not so bad as the trains
are now partially working. Had a burger
and sweet potato fries at <a href="http://pjclarkes.com/" target="_blank">PJ Clarke’s</a>.
The staff could not have been kinder finding me a table with an outlet
to charge both my phone and computer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carolyn's Poppy Seed Bread and Ossau-Iraty Cheese</td></tr>
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<u>Friday<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Breakfast: The last of the poppy seed bread and some more
cheese. As of today, I am over this
urban camping thing. Think I will spend most of the day uptown. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lunch: Found a nice quiet table in the atrium for ticket
sales at Lincoln Center. Hot green tea,
Wi-Fi, lots of other refugees graciously sharing outlets. Met friends at
<a href="http://landmarc-restaurant.com/" target="_blank">Landmarc</a> in Columbus Circle and spent a sum of money I will later want to
forget. But the braised lamb sandwich
with butter pickles will surely standout as one of the most comforting meals of
the week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dinner: Lunch kind of ran into dinner and migrated to a friend’s corporate apartment. We
reheated my leftover sandwich and some pizza. We passed pieces around while
watching the Hurricane Sandy telethon.
Too many bottles of wine consumed to count. Disobeyed my own rules, walking home in the
dark, only my headlamp and some traffic guards to guide me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Saturday<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friends celebrating the return of power at A Casa Fox</td></tr>
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Breakfast: Let there be light! Fired up the stove the old fashioned way to
make seven grain hot cereal. Still no
hot water or heat. But electricity!
Sweet electricity. Didn’t realize
how much I needed you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lunch: Neighborhood is still scarily quiet. Everyone just got power back so most
restaurants are closed. Walk for 20
minutes determining what is open. End up
at <a href="http://www.billsbarandburger.com/" target="_blank">Bill’s Burger</a>. Getting tired of
burgers and sandwiches but desperate times….
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dinner: At <a href="http://acasafox.com/" target="_blank">A Casa Fox</a> on the Lower East Side it is back to business.
A random mix of people- new friends, old, friends of friends stranded in
Manhattan post-marathon cancellation. We
drink cocktails and pass plates of calamari and rice, empanadas, beef tacos. We talk of waterless toilet strategies, the
beauty of headlamps, the generosity of neighbors and gyms, the disappointment
of marathons un-run, the many people less fortunate than us still waiting for
help. We tie our bandana napkins in funny ways making neckerchiefs and silly
hats. We take pictures. A snapshot of a time that none of us will
soon forget. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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If you were in New York City sometime in the last week, you
are the lucky few. Crisp, clear
mornings; falling yellow leaves; precious fading hours of amethyst daylight; these<i> </i>autumn days are <i>the </i>best days to be in New York. </div>
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As such, I thought I would celebrate autumn, the city, and
my 100<sup>th</sup> blog on Pho the Love of Food with an imaginary trip to a
few of my favorite spots in the city right now.
No doubt one can blow the bank on a single meal in this town, but if you
live here, that is not the way of life.
More likely you learn how to eat well, often sharing food with a friend
or lover to get the most bang for your food buck. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So here you have it.
Two days, two people, two hundred dollars to spend eating and drinking in this best of all possible
times of year in New York City. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I rouse John from his precious slumber sometime around 10:00am
with promises of coffee just a short walk from our apartment at <a href="http://groundedcoffee.com/" target="_blank">Grounded</a>. We pull up two mismatched chairs to read the
New York Times over one extra hot latte with organic skim milk and one Japanese
Sencha full leaf green tea. Once
caffeinated, we split a poppyseed bagel, easy on the butter, and one of
Grounded’s signature breakfast wraps- a tortilla stuffed with scrambled eggs
and turkey sausage then griddled on a Panini press until crisp. ($13)<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is a weekday in this imaginary scenario so we hop the L
train to the East Village for the “Duck Bowl Set Lunch” at <a href="http://momofuku.com/new-york/ssam-bar/" target="_blank">Momofuku Ssam Bar</a>
(not served on weekends). The sweet,
sticky, juicy duck breast and shredded leg served with rice, lettuce cups, scallion
pancake and a side of spicy roasted potatoes is almost enough for two people to
share. We throw in an order of duck
dumplings for good measure all washed down with oolong iced tea. ($32)<o:p></o:p></div>
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After an afternoon long run on the Hudson River and some
shopping for new releases at Book Book on Bleecker Street, John’s getting
peckish. A small order of fries with
bourbon dipping sauce and two Belgian beers in courtyard at <a href="http://www.voldenuitbar.com/" target="_blank">Vol de Nuit</a> (otherwise known as “The Belgian Beer Bar”) gets us back in a good place. ($25)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do I feel any shame in eating regularly across the street
from our apartment? If the food weren’t
so damn good at <a href="http://www.corsinocantina.com/" target="_blank">Corsino</a> you’d have every right to call me lazy. But the Tagliatelle with Pork Ragu and Mint
is one of the most satisfying pastas in town.
We share an order of the tagliatelle and a half bottle of Valpolicella then
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We take our paper over the Chelsea Market to stake out a
table before the tour busses arrive.
A latte from <a href="http://www.ninthstreetespresso.com/Ninth_Street_Espresso/Locations.html" target="_blank">9<sup>th</sup> St. Espresso </a>for John ($4) plus an<a href="http://www.amysbread.com/menu/cafe_menu" target="_blank"> oat scone and almond brioche</a> from <a href="http://www.amysbread.com/" target="_blank">Amy’s Bread</a> and one green tea ($12) gets Day Two
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Spicy Cumin Lamb Noodles</td></tr>
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It is back to the East Village for lunch. I’m pretty sure they add crack to the Spicy Cumin
Hand-ripped Lamb Noodles because I get the shakes if it has been too many weeks
between visits to <a href="http://www.xianfoods.com/" target="_blank">Xi’an Famous Foods</a>. While I take mine in a rich, soupy broth,
John does his dry, or rather, stir-fried in a slick of chili-laced oil. Our taste buds hum for hours. ($14.50)<o:p></o:p></div>
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We stick around the East Side and catch a movie. By the time we come out the sun is fading
signaling Happy Hour is getting started at <a href="http://restauranthearth.com/terrior/Terroir.html" target="_blank">Terroir</a>. We order two glasses of Musar Jeune, Chateau
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On the seven block walk south to<a href="http://zabbelee.com/contents/home.html" target="_blank"> Zabb Elee</a>, I’m pretty sure I
can smell the duck larb. It’s calling to
me. Ground duck, shallots, mint, crispy
duck skin, lime, scallion, chili. My
mouth is on fire. We wash it down by splitting a Beer Laos before moving on to
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We have room for one more beer and maybe a bit more food. We continue the southward walk to the Lower
East Side because there may be no better Asian food for soaking up excess
liquor than the Ham Rice Cakes at <a href="http://yunnankitchen.com/" target="_blank">Yunnan Kitchen</a>. The hearty bowl of chewy rice disks is tossed
with shaved heritage pork and plenty of chili sauce. It is drinking food with a conscience. We
toast our successful two days of eating with an Ommegang Witte and a Victory
Prima Pils. ($23)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Total for the weekend: $197.50. (Note this doesn’t include tax and tip but
I’m pretty sure not everyone would be as inclined to eat or drink quite as much
as us.) I’m not sure eating this good
can <i>only </i>be done in New York, but on
gorgeous fall days like these, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be doing
it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Six years ago I made a trip to a less frequently visited
area of China deep in the Southwest. A
week of eating in homes, restaurants, and street stalls left a permanent mark on my understanding of “Chinese” food. The food of the Southwest was a far cry from
the xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) of Shanghai, the Muslim influenced lamb and
wheat noodle dishes of Xi’an, or the multitudinous small plates of Hong Kong’s
dim sum parlors. It was at times
reminiscent of the Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, neighbors to the south, while
also feeling inextricably linked to faraway cities within the nation’s borders,
like Beijing. The result was less a facsimile
of Chinese and Southeast Asian recipes than a food culture uniquely its own. This was Yunnan cuisine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One night I would eat barbecued oysters slathered in garlic
sauce and a cold plate of thousand-year-old eggs and fermented tofu doused in black
vinegar, all decidedly Chinese flavors but somehow fresher, more straightforward. On another night
the plates would trend more to the flavors of Southeast Asia- fried
rice served in pineapple boats, lemongrass grilled chicken, and smoky mashed
green eggplant. Then there were the bowls
upon bowls of Crossing the Bridge Noodles, a pile of meats, noodles, and quail
egg in fragrant broth topped with a slick of chili laced hot oil- it is a dish
as legendary in this region as the story for which it is named. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Flash forward a few years and the interest in regional
Chinese cuisine continues to grow within both China and the rest of the
Chinese-food loving world. And the
Yunnan has finally been given its due in New York with a restaurant dedicated
to cuisine of the Southwest. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Judging by the Sunday night crowds on a recent visit to
<a href="http://yunnankitchen.com/" target="_blank">Yunnan Kitchen</a> in the Lower East Side, it isn’t just me who is curious about
the food of this region. To be fair, Travis
Post, the chef, is not Chinese, simply passionate about the cuisine and
channeling that interest into this new project with owner Erika Chou. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At first glance of the menu only a few items brought back
memories of that long ago trip- lemongrass chicken, charred eggplant, three
kinds of fried rice. A plate of
perfectly spherical fried potato balls was so light they could have
levitated. Dipped in the accompanying
vinaigrette I was firmly brought back to earth with the grounding balance of
soy, vinegar, and chilies. Lamb meatballs
were plain only in appearance. The
seasoning was heavy on cinnamon and cumin a reminder that a Southwest branch of
the Silk Road passed through the Yunnan, a delivery route for tea, gemstones,
spices and other precious goods bound for India and beyond. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But it was a monochromatic plate of chicken and taro that
really caused a jolt to my memory bank.
The chicken was served cold, shredded and piled high above a cylinder of
creamy mashed taro root. A drizzle of
burnt orange hued tamarind dressing saved the plate from being the color of
paste, while a hefty pile of fried matchsticks of taro added texture. Taro, chicken, tamarind- sweet, earthy,
tangy- these were flavors I knew well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even in these times of frequent flying, so few people from
America make it to the Yunnan I doubt many will be debating the authenticity
of say, the lemongrass chicken as they might a soup dumpling from a
Shanghai-style restaurant. But those
visitors to Yunnan Kitchen might recognize one thing: the menu there is its own sort of tour guide, a variety of thoughtfully arranged
tastes from a land of many peoples, languages and customs not enough people get
to experience first hand. Maybe after tasting Travis Post's earnest interpretation of Yunnan cuisine they'll reconsider sticking to the standard tourist itinerary when planning their next China holiday. </div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-79399784001523457992012-08-20T19:29:00.001-04:002012-08-20T19:30:03.939-04:00Zanzibari Pesto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We followed the Masai guard into a warmly lit dining room
where two doors opened out to the star studded sky. Just past the sandy porch, waves crashed with
the strength of full tide. We had
survived a puddle jumper flight from the Tanzanian bush and landed, it seemed,
in paradise.</div>
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Fabio, the charismatic owner of <a href="http://www.mamamapambo.altervista.org/In%20Inglese/index.html" target="_blank">Mamamapambo Hotel</a>, ushered
John and me up a spiral staircase to a lofted room. We almost didn’t need a to turn on the
lights, the full moon shone bright enough to illuminate the comfortable
Zanzibar lounge chairs and plush cushions strewn about the veranda. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He gave his profuse apologies. With our plane arriving late that evening
there would be no time for his cooks to make a complicated dinner. But perhaps something simple? Maybe a mango salad? Or a plate of pasta? A pesto or arrabiata could be arranged. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fifteen minutes later we descended back into the cozy dining
room. One plate of pesto spaghetti made
with fresh basil (and did I detect peanuts?) and one spicy penne arrabiata
materialized, perfectly al dente. It was as good as if we were in Italy. Except we were far from Italy, hungrily bent
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The next morning I spent a couple of hours watching village
life happen below our veranda. Women waded
out into the turquoise waters early in the morning not returning until late in
the afternoon, trailing wooden dhows leaden with bulging potato sacks. These sacks carried the women’s livelihood:
seaweed to be dried and shipped to Japan where it would find its way into
cosmetics and creams. Their daughters
and sons attempted to help with the load, but even young boys working together
could not equal the strength of a mother’s arms as she hoisted a bag on her
scarf wrapped head and carried it the long walk in. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Meanwhile, the few men who appeared to be working, gathered
food. Fishing dhows shipped out for the
reef early in the morning returning with their catch and the rising tide. Boys with sharp sticks drove octopus from
their holes and collected them in canvas sacks.
Sea urchins and cockles filled buckets, destined for the market or the
feast that would happen after the sun went down for these Muslim villagers
celebrating the holy month of Ramadan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We easily fell into a routine. Lunch was always pasta giving us a chance to
try as many variations as we could. Puttanesca, tuna with mint and lime, fresh
crab, then back again to that pesto and arrabiata. Each (with the exception of slightly gummy
crab) was executed with perfection.
Fabio informed us that the produce was grown locally but for certain
items like the Spanish olive oil and the Italian dried pasta, they relied on an
importer. His wife, Stephania, had lured
the men in the kitchen from up the coast at one of the bigger and splashier
resorts catering to mostly Italian tourists.
They already had the basics of Italian cuisine that she built upon,
teaching the cooks her own recipes.
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In the morning while we nibbled on fresh baked pastries and
papaya, Stephania would post the night’s specials on a small black board. If the fishermen brought in tuna that morning
there might be “Mediterranean Fish” listed- grilled and topped with compote of
tomato, olives, and garlic. Kingfish, a
local catch, made a couple of appearances, once expertly breaded in a crust of
fresh coconut. Appetizers ranged from a
lime drenched mango salad to creamy pumpkin soup to fluffy balls of fried
potato puree that would not have been out of place on any New York menu. Samosas stuffed with fish, fresh chapatis, hot sesame studded rolls with every meal, there was little these chefs couldn't cook. <o:p></o:p></div>
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needed help, we’d gladly come work for them.
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Work for them? Nooo…
Fabio said. But if you are really interested, I might have
a hotel to sell you, he said with his characteristic wink. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It seemed that the women gathering seaweed weren’t the only
ones breaking their backs. Making pesto
in Africa was hard work. Albeit, Fabio
and Stephania’s kind of hard work came with an amazing view and some delicious
perks. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maureen, Me, Zaki at Restaurant Daniel</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am used to traveling to another country and being swept
away by the newness of wonder of the local cuisine. However, it is not so often
I get to return the favor.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">It is even
less often that I get the opportunity to showcase the very best of New York
food.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">And no, I’m not talking <a href="http://www.murraysbagels.com/index2.htm" target="_blank">Murray’s Bagels</a> and <a href="http://bleekerstreetpizza.net/" target="_blank">Bleecker Street Pizza </a>(though both are great representatives).</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">I’m talking about <a href="http://www.danielnyc.com/" target="_blank">Restaurant Daniel</a>.</span><br />
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A couple of months ago we were lucky to have two employees
of <a href="http://www.roomtoread.org/" target="_blank">Room to Read</a> visiting from their home countries of Bangladesh and
<a href="http://www.roomtoread.org/page.aspx?pid=323" target="_blank">Zambia</a>. For Maureen, the <a href="http://www.roomtoread.org/page.aspx?pid=285" target="_blank">director of literacy programs</a> in Zambia, it was her very first time to the city. For Zaki, country director of <a href="http://www.roomtoread.org/Bangladesh" target="_blank">Room to Read Bangladesh</a>, this was his second time, but on his first visit he had never
strayed much farther than his relative’s house in New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When two loyal Room to Read supporters offered to take
everyone out to dinner- Zaki, Maureen, John, and me- Daniel was their first
suggestion. I’m never one to turn down
dinner at Daniel (among the best anywhere in the world), but what would our
guests think? Would the pomp and
circumstance of such a formal dining experience be too much? Would they understand and <i>like </i>Daniel Boulud’s signature style of
fresh seasonal, ingredients grounded in classical French technique?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The night of the dinner I was seated next to Zaki at the
large, round corner table. Opening the
menu I quickly set out to help him navigate his choices. Most native English speakers would have
difficulty understanding some of the ingredients, let alone a Bangladeshi. Rather than translate the extensive menu word
for word we narrowed down his choices based on more basic concepts. “For your
starter, would you like soup, salad, pasta, or meat?” “Are you feeling more like fish tonight, or
meat? There is wild game and beef.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our hostess steered him toward one of the night’s specials:
white asparagus flown in from France. But before that was served came the requisite
amuse bouche: a trio that evening on the theme of broccoli. I watched anxiously as Zaki and Maureen
picked up their dainty silver utensils and dipped into the Lilliputian
porcelain dishes. The plates were almost
universally licked clean. Even my
broccoli-averse beau John scraped out every last drop in his small cup of
broccoli veloute. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Two thirds of our table went with the white asparagus. To be a contrarian, I ordered a duo of
octopus. It was sublime, meltingly
tender. I passed a piece onto Zaki’s
plate for him to try. “What do you think?” He chewed slowly, concentrating on each
morsel. He turned his head. “Amy, the
last five bites I’ve had”- amuse bouches and now appetizers- “have been
completely new tastes for me. And each
one has been <i>gorgeous.</i>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Across the table Maureen and our hostess were caught up in
their own private conversation, like old friends gossiping over a casual girls’
night dinner. Maureen ate every bite of
the white asparagus and appeared to clean her plate with the main course as
well. I saw Maureen the next day and
finally had the chance to ask her what she thought of everything. What did she think of the food? <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Amy, as I was going home in the cab last night I had a
moment where I realized I had been smiling for hours. I was still grinning ear to ear from that
dinner. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“My father passed away six months ago. Last night was the first night since he died
that I allowed myself to be happy. It
was wonderful, just wonderful. And I
said to myself, Maureen, this is what he would want. He <i>wants</i>
you to be happy.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have had transcendent moments with food sitting on a
street corner eating from a cart and I have had revelatory experiences in the
plush cushions of four-star restaurants.
But I’ve never known until that night whether that translated across
cultures and continents, not the words but the transformative, inspiring,
healing power of a dining experience.
Zaki, an accomplished home cook back in Bangladesh, had that experience
eating food after food he had never tasted before. While Maureen found, in the company of
friends, in a beautiful dining room, being served exquisitely prepared cuisine,
the healing power of a great meal. That
is a beautiful, <i>gorgeous</i>, thought indeed. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
</div>Amy Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05041467048649575098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522873374794968385.post-52234640518804884312012-07-09T12:08:00.000-04:002012-07-09T12:08:36.902-04:00Why the Men Can Have Their Grill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;">It is still at least somewhat true that the grill is a man’s
domain.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Frankly, if the men were always
grilling like my brother and his friends did a few weeks back on a camping
trip, I’d be perfectly okay never coming near a pile of hot coals.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div>
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Over a weekend in Virginian Appalachia not once did I pick
up so much as a pair of tongs to help with the cooking. It was not for lack of offering. Under normal circumstances I might have been
itching to throw on an apron, but once the boys fired up the grill and the food
started coming out, I was more than happy to sit back with the ladies and enjoy
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I was a fool if I ever doubted the high epicurean standards
of my brother’s crew. One of his friends went so far as to buy a smoker just to
take the grill-out from standard to extraordinary. Friday night the R2-D2
looking contraption was put to the test with a pile of liberally seasoned
chicken legs and breasts. Even veggies
found their way into the top layer of smoke- eggplant, onions, and peppers were
cooked until soft and fragrant but still structured. Both the leftover chicken and veg would form the filling for my post-hike sandwich the next day along with a liberal spread of roasted eggplant dip (yes, the boys brought that too). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The grand finale was a Saturday night barbecue to put all
car camping cookouts to shame. While
playing dominoes, a snack of smoked and peppered wild boar loin appeared to
whet our appetite. This was followed
about a half hour later by a plate piled high with smoked sweet Italian and
spicy Andouille sausage. Corn on the cob
arrived next, still in their jackets and pleasantly charred. A cast iron pot of potatoes mixed with
peppers and onions, and was given a gentle bath of beer then allowed to bubble
until the potatoes were tender. Finally,
buried beneath the sausage and wild boar on the bottom of R2-D2 a luscious pork
shoulder had spent hours in a smoke sauna.
The result was pork so meltingly tender it needed nothing more than a
fork to eat.</span></div>
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It may be still be a man’s world in a few too many ways, but
if the men are cooking like they were the other weekend while the women folk
are relaxing, that’s a world I am more than happy to live in. At least for a weekend. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">Amy Powell is a food and travel writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the French Culinary Institute. Follow her on Twitter @amymariepowell</i></div>
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