monday night i worked with steph and the crew at the food and wine entertaining showcase. grant achatz from alinea was there, art smith and graham elliot bowles also were there (both on top chef masters this past summer), and more than fifteen other chefs joined in, inlcuding paul virant who came within a point of knocking off chef morimoto on iron chef a couple weeks ago. it's fair to say this thing was packed with star power. and the best part? we were the only table serving their dish up in the patron lounge, which was literally pouring free patron cocktails the entire night (even before the doors opened in our case...)
on the plate: pan seared nantucket bay scallops (so awesome to see a new england product make its way to the midwest), pancetta, braised pistachios, a sunchoke puree, preserved lemon, and pomegrante seeds. with all the p's, we had a few laughs over how hard the dish was to describe throughout the night when the rush hit. not so easy a thing to say ten times fast...
here's steph's write-up on the night, too.
aside from this, news broke early in the week on the state of the bluefin tuna, and i wanted to post on it first thing. npr and other news outlets have already broken stories on it, but here's hoping i can get something up tomorrow. things are very, very bad on that front.
(photos thanks to steph and tommy blue)
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