Thursday night! High class foraging...
Hank Shaw (read all about him here, he says it better than I can), describes himself as the omnivore who has solved his dilemma.
He's been on the road, thousands of miles from home, promoting his new book, Hunt, Gather, Cook - Finding the Forgotten Feast, published by Rodale, and Thursday the 22nd sees
Very curious to see the locally sourced and foraged menu.
Hank says: "I expect to see squab (not wild, but as you know it has been illegal to sell real wild game for 110 years) - we wanted to play on the pigeons of New York - porgies or some other local wild fish from the NYC area (porgies are my favorite local fish), I can almost guarantee wild mushrooms, and I've given him a line on some wild berries and nuts for dessert. Beyond that it'll be up to [chef Brad Farmerie] to create the exact dishes."
Will there be sea rocket? Spicebush berries? Maybe some oyster mushrooms?
For reservations email Kim: Kimberly at public-nyc dot com
Or call 212 - 343-7011
Update 2.26pm: *** Public just canceled this dinner.
Hank will be at Beretta Gallery on Madison Avenue, Wednesday 21st , from 6-8 pm talking about wild food and signing books. Uh, yes...it is that Beretta. They do make and sell guns. Including handguns. My favourite. Sigh.
What can I say? It's called Hunt, Gather, Cook.
We used to catch porgies off a skiff in the Sound when I was a kid. Scaled em, fried em, et em.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to go to that dinner, and was sorry to miss it, being out of town. Do you know why they cancelled?
ReplyDeleteFrank, sounds kind of idyllic...
ReplyDeleteEllen - me, too. Public did not do any PR (distracted by the opening of a new restaurant), and it wasn't on enough radars...Not sure who else should have been on the PR boat, though.