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In various Brooklyn neighborhoods, one such meal has been served roughly twice a quarter for the better part of 10 years. A restaurant-style dinner for work-crazed urban professionals, it is as steady and simple as it is elegant and rich. It features pork chops grilled and glazed in a reduction of maple syrup and balsamic vinegar, served with soft apple slices coated in same beside a mound of polenta lightened with goat cheese and fragrant with rosemary, beneath a dusting of Clinton-era nostalgia: chopped pecans and candied ginger.

That last bit is what marks the dish as restaurant-style fare, worth aping at home: candied ginger is an inexpensive gild, the sort of marker that allows a chef to charge $21 a plate instead of $17. The man who devised this one is Matthew Kenney, the once-white-hot celebrity chef who opened (and saw close) a gaggle of popular scene-restaurants in the 1990s and early oughts: his Matthew’s, on the Upper East Side, begat, among others, Bar Anise, Mezze, Monzu, Canteen, Commune, Commissary. They are all gone now.

“I probably had it on the menu at Commune,” he said of the pork in a telephone interview from Oklahoma City, where he was in the process of opening a “living foods” restaurant and education center called 105degrees. Now a kind of raw-food entrepreneur, Kenney is a partner in the organic Free Foods cafes in Midtown Manhattan; he has helped develop restaurants in Madrid and Winter Park, Fla. He hasn’t eaten meat in a long time.
Posted to sustenance by bill 9-20-2009 6:38 pm [link] [1 comment]
Now is the time to snip those basil leaves off of your plants, whip up some pesto, and freeze it. That way, you’ll still be eating local even if you can’t get to a farmers’ market during the winter months. Most cooks have different methods of making and freezing pesto. Some rinse the basil leaves first while others swear it will turn them brown; some omit the cheese before freezing while others omit the garlic. There is no magic formula; however, after years of making and freezing pesto, I have settled on a few tricks that work for me. I hope they work for you too.
Posted to sustenance by bill 9-19-2009 2:32 pm [link] [4 comments]
Russ Meyer tribute on TCM tonight. (He died 5 years ago today.) Faster Pussycat at 2 AM EST and Mudhoney at 4 AM EST.
Posted to uncle bill's tv jamboree by bill 9-18-2009 5:35 pm [link] [1 comment]
highly anticipated + chevy chase = ?!?



tonight @930 after season premiere of the office.
Posted to uncle bill's tv jamboree by dave 9-17-2009 9:42 pm [link] [add a comment]
and much better than i can draw an elephant
Posted to artifax by linda 9-17-2009 5:13 pm [link] [1 comment]
new movie by helvetica documentarian - objectified

interview
Posted to cinefiles by dave 9-17-2009 1:18 pm [link] [4 refs] [add a comment]
Monetize the hate.
Posted to treehouse by jim 9-17-2009 12:44 am [link] [add a comment]
some crazy soccer action this afternoon via directv (461-469), fox sportschannel and setanta. 8 qualifying matches simultaneously @245 for the uefa champions league.

Dynamo 20:45 FC Rubin Kazan
Internazionale 20:45 Barcelona
Liverpool 20:45 Debrecen
Lyon 20:45 Fiorentina
Olympiacos 20:45 AZ
Sevilla 20:45 Unirea Urziceni
Standard 20:45 Arsenal
Stuttgart 20:45 Rangers
Posted to uncle bill's tv jamboree by dave 9-16-2009 7:36 pm [link] [1 comment]
Official Badness
Posted to treehouse by mark 9-15-2009 1:16 am [link] [add a comment]
RIP Jim Carroll.
Posted to treehouse by jim 9-14-2009 5:07 pm [link] [add a comment]
busy night of tv.

hour long series finale of king of the hill at 8.
season finale of true blood at 9.
chicago bears vs. greenbay packers @ 830.
womens us open finals at 9.
mad men at 10.
Posted to uncle bill's tv jamboree by dave 9-14-2009 12:47 am [link] [add a comment]
iphone ocarina
Posted to treehouse by bill 9-13-2009 7:28 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]
the influence of del close
Posted to artifax by bill 9-13-2009 7:26 pm [link] [add a comment]
any body ever chew teaberry gum. ever do the teaberry shuffle?

any body remember a birch, bark or root-beer flavored chewing gum.

one more time!
Posted to sustenance by bill 9-12-2009 10:16 pm [link] [3 comments]
Mike
Posted to treehouse by mark 9-12-2009 6:18 am [link] [1 comment]
dont know if this was mentioned before but i walked past it the other day:

japanese premium beef
Posted to sustenance by dave 9-12-2009 1:21 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]
In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband
Posted to teleclysm by mark 9-10-2009 7:27 pm [link] [add a comment]
any good pizzeria near times square?
Posted to sustenance by linda 9-10-2009 5:56 pm [link] [add a comment]
"You lie!”
Posted to backspin by bill 9-10-2009 4:23 am [link] [5 comments]
Closed
THE JOHN DORY in Chelsea.
ELETTARIA on West Eighth Street.
((the john dory was a delish and prob very expensive to open spot that looked wacky to say the least owned by spotted pig and mario batali and del posto owners......))
Posted to sustenance by Skinny 9-09-2009 11:44 am [link] [1 comment]
iphone app tells you best time to go to bathroom @movies.
Posted to cinefiles by dave 9-08-2009 4:57 pm [link] [2 refs] [2 comments]
pave everything
Posted to treehouse by mark 9-08-2009 4:18 am [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]
phantom tollbooth on tcm now.
Posted to uncle bill's tv jamboree by linda 9-07-2009 10:52 pm [link] [add a comment]
"Soon after the election, the Administration began corralling the big liberal DC interest groups into a variety of organizations and communication networks through which they telegraphed their wishes -- into a virtual veal pen. The 8:45 am morning call co-hosted by the "liberal" Center for American Progress, Unity 09, and Common Purpose are just a few of the overt ways that the White House controls its left flank and maintains discipline."
Posted to backspin by dave 9-07-2009 5:04 pm [link] [4 comments]
murray! murray! oh, wait, this isn't the tennis page?
Posted to backspin by linda 9-05-2009 1:35 am [link] [8 comments]
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