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Afternoon Snacks
On today's Afternoon Snacks, a cookbook release from Allagash, a tasting menu for all your senses at Matyson, soda with a twist in Japan, and some counter-intuitive Thanksgiving turkey advice from a master.
Afternoon Snacks
A cookbook release party, an all-encompassing tasting at Matyson, a new take on "healthful" sodas, and sage advice from Pépin for your Turkey Day bird: all on today's Afternoon Snacks!
In Philly, Allagash Brewing is well-known and well-loved, so it’s not crazy that they’d choose our city to host the first release party for their new cookbook. Allagash: The Cookbook (Blue Tree) features about 50 recipes designed to pair with their beers; only a few recipes actually call for you to cook with the beer. Chef Jonny Mac and his crew will prepare a pair of dishes from the cookbook (smoked pork loin for one, fried oysters for another) for the party, and there will be four Allagash offerings on tap to go with: White, Smoke and Beards, Hugh Malone, and peppery Fluxus ’12. And, of course, you can buy the book there if you’re so moved—you can even have it signed by the Allagash VIPs that will be on hand (founder/brewer Rob Tod, rep Suzy Woods, cookbook author James Simpkins, and photographer Brian Smestad). The party starts at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 13, at Pub and Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.).
This week at Matyson (37 S. 19th St.), they’re bringing back their “Five Senses” theme for their tasting menu. While their weekly $45-a-head prix fixe usually leaps off the page and grabs you by the gut, we’re thinking this is one you’ve got to see (and touch, hear, smell, and taste) for yourself. Thanks, we’ll be here all week! Available, as always, through Thursday:
Touch
Korean BBQ
Hearing
Sizzling octopus, cauliflower, pork shoulder, yogurt
Sight
Tuna, beets, radish, carrot, pretty flowers
Smell
Colorado lamb cassoulet, smoking herbs
Taste
Chocolate & cheese
And for a couple of things we've been reading today:
In Japan, high-fiber cola is apparently a thing. Because high fiber intake has been linked to healthier weight, so of course it follows that adding fiber to your sugary beverage will make the pounds just melt off.
Via NYT Dining: Jacques Pépin suggests you steam your Thanksgiving turkey before roasting it, and while you remain free to do whatever you like, we will pretty much do anything Jacques Pépin tells us to.
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