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Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.
Amuse Bouche
Ricotta and Sweet Pea Tarts: The ricotta-sweet pea was very smooth and, to my surprise, had a distinct green pea flavor. What surprised and delighted all of us was that the pastry crust was a sweet pastry crust. I had expected something more like a parmesan/cheese-flavored crust, or savory, at least. The sweet crust worked.
Risotto with Red Wine and Fontina Croquettes: As the server had warned, these croquettes were molten hot on the inside and oozing with a nice gooey warm interior of fontina-bound red wine-cooked risotto. Very good.
Read the review of his dinner at Cru on my blog.
Great Horned Owl
Oswego, IL
The Red-winged Blackbird was harassing him for a few minutes. He didn't budge.
Hollywood cemetery in RICHMOND VA
This should be viewed after the image entitled: MS. DANIELS TOMBSTONE 1.
Green apple & wasabi dip n' dots with eel in cucumber-melon water.
Notes: The green apple-wasabi combination I had encountered, in frozen form no less, nearly a year before at the now closed 1 star Michelin Bon Lloc in Stockholm, Sweden. How interesting that this pairing has made it's way around the world to greet me again in Shanghai!
The eel was the really confusing element in this amuse. I can't say that it worked, and I can't say that it failed. Certainly the buttery avocado fit - it's clean flavors complimented the crisp freshness of the cucumber-melon water and the lucid green apple-wasabi dots. I think I'm used to eel served in full-flavored preparations (no doubt to cover eel's often muddy-tasting flesh), like glazed with teriyaki (Japanese) or smoked (northern Europe). Here, the cooked seems to be naked. The other oddity is that in Japanese cuisine, eel is usually served cooked and therefore not taken with wasabi - as it is here. While I'm always enthusiastic for new ways of approaching and eating food, I think what failed to grab me about the eel in this dish is that it ended up disappearing - texturally cloaked by the more compelling firm cubes of luscious avocado and flavorfully masked by the bright lucid green apple and wasabi.
The cucumber-melon water was also slightly sweet and tangy - perhaps sherry vinegar?
Potato
Pancetta, Hollandaise.
Café Boulud
New York, New York
(February 13, 2013)
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Before our hastily-arranged two days trip to New York last winter, I asked a friend about the traffic and where to park. He opened Google Maps and pin-pointed all the cheeky little spaces where you park for free (and be assured that your car won't be disappeared when you
come back); and then suddenly stopped and said, "Forget the car. You must take the subway to experience the real NYC."
So I did. On the next two cold, rain-drenched days, we left our car on Staten Island and took the ferry and then the subway to explore the city. And as my friend said, it was as if you were experiencing a miniature version of NYC itself inside the rusted, dirty, crowded labyrinth of the subway system. It was a melting pot that didn't melt. A large collection of people of all colors, age and race, coming from all the corners of the world, using all the languages other than may be English.
So if you ever get a chance to visit the exhilarating metropolis, do yourself a favor and take the subway. Take a seat, take off the headphones, look around, and you'll see polished fashionistas riding to work, eleven years old Senegalese immigrant selling gummy bears, six-feet tall homeless man reminding everyone of good karma and asking for help, and someone with a acoustic guitar jumping into the car and start singing Strawberry Fields Forever. You can spot people feeling nonchalant, cordial, somber, delighted, depressed, amused, curious, exhausted, swag, numb, reminiscing, exploring, irritated, forever-alone, suspicious, festive, melodious, and global, like a true New Yorker.
Amuse Bouche
Prosciutto with caramelized onions; strawberry soda; and lemon-poppy panna cotta.
Bluestem
Kansas City, Missouri
(June 27, 2012)
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Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.
Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.
Had the unbelievable opportunity to shoot this gorgeous Amuse widebody s2000 while I was in SF for Wekfest. No one has ever shot this car before so it was awesome to get the privilege to do so. Thanks to Kaan for bringing out this piece of art. Big thanks to Jeremy and Brad for helping me on this one and Jason for showing us an awesome location.