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Nice! What test was MB using?
vacuum coffee brewer
Demerrara sugar :
Named after the Demerara area of Guyana, South America, from which it originally came. It is often described as natural, unrefined cane sugar. Today, Mauritius is a major supplier. It is a light brown sugar with large, slightly sticky crystals. Originally assumed to be a product of a sugar cane mill, but nowadays also produced in England and Canada in refineries. A popular product for tea and coffee in England, Australia and Canada, but not very well known in the U.S. An old Webster's Dictionary (1940s) describes it as a raw sugar having large superficially yellow crystals obtained by treating the sugar with sulfuric acid.
india tree
Chiapas coffee
Day 3 : Wine #1 is 2001 Francois Cotat Rose.
One of the greatest Rose producer’s?? I feel so every time I check in….This one is shining right outta the bottle, at 12 hours open still cruising upward, yumster deluxe.
Wine #2 2000 Truchot Charmes, sensual and tender, temporal wine. Truchot is for lovers.
Day 4: Greek Rose (yet another bottle of my fav Rose for 2003 Summer…..)
Day 2: 2001 Antoine Arena “Carco Carco” Vin de Pays de L’Ile de Beaute, a Kermit Lynch estate. 100% Vermentino, and very expensive ($35 retail). Kermit controls the fine wine trade in Corsica for America. His other estate’s (Dme. Leccia) red has a large cultish following in Euroland, one restaurant friends and I ate in had over 10 year’s in vertical, but we drank 95 Truchot Charmes (which went great with the fish, but sent the wine guy into a tizzy, “You cant have red with with fish” The Wine Guy “Cant we please have the wine, were paying for??” Some Ugly American. It all started with the refusal of The Wine Guy’s offer of a whistle wetter of some herbs and booze, sorry Wine Guy in America its OK to drink Raveneau as an aperitif).
This wine is rich in texture and fruit, should go great with the monfish I bought right from the fisherman for $4 (the tail) yup four bucks and he skin’d if for me, caught this last night…..yahoo
Skin-E
Wines of Sakonnet Point: Day 1
Gatinois Rose : a cloudy day could not hold back the brightness of this wine, sipping this sunshine sent a hello to ever part of my tired body....
1999 Mascarello Freisa : (decanted 24 hours) a monumental wine, the only greater value to me is Briord Muscadet, in this world me know....
Sez Skinney
Corn of The Season (so far) : Walkers Farm, Little Compton
Sez Skinny
I am on Squid tour this month, 5 Greek spots, Milos again was very good, my fav has been Thalassa (tender & herb crusted), Pelagos was not so hot but others say nice.....
The Citysearch readers poll for best new restaurant is underway. WD-50 currently running 3rd. Cast those ballots.
And if you don't write in the Alias lamb burger for best hamburger, well, all I can say is that we know where you live.
EAT SHORT RIBS @ 36-92 (5 W 36)......great Korean BBQ....
hi dmt...been too long
few quick recent food notes for ya:
duck tongues in XO sauce at Congee Village on Allen: tastes like duck, melts in your mouth, with one little skinny bone inside. house special chicken (fried, in savory oil with toasted garlic) pretty great too
Panfried pickerel & whitefish at Henry's Fish Restaurant, Georgian Bay, Ontario: fantastic fish, love a restaurant you can't get to except by boat (or seaplane). But holy shit do the midwesterners like it bland - boring fries, white bread, coleslaw...i would have killed for some salsa.
on roasting your own
It's difficult to locate an egg that has been cooked with more care and more interestingly than the ones you crack at home, but my new favorite brunch is at 'inoteca where a truffled egg toast with battarga can be had with a glass of Muscat. Deeply satisfying.
Eating By #'s 2003
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 12 Times
wd~50 10 Times
Wash Park 6 Times
66 5 Times
The Minnow 5 Times
Kai 3 Times
Meal #10 at wd~50 with a friend was as good as the others, it was my friends 2nd meal, he was blown away by it.....
I tried to avoid Lupa this year but I had a marvy lunch there today, better luck for me next year??....2*.......hey eat pizza
I hadn't been in a long time, but Saturday night was another fine meal at Prune. I love this place. Okay, there is a little too much butter for me on some dishes, but that's personal and if you know how to order right (whole grilled fish) it isn't a problem. The food is very simple and straight forward in a way that is apparently hard for most chefs to accomplish. You might call it no ego food.
It still doesn't have an air conditioner, although it looks like they are putting one in. And while you'd think that would be unbearable, it's actually not that bad. The fans are blasting. The very happy crowd is packed in but not complaining. And the chef Gabrielle is seducing everyone in sight from her lovely open kitchen. Great atmosphere, great food, great time. I've had to extend my definition of the LES to include 1st street so that this restaurant is in my neighborhood.