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Afternoon Snacks
Thai New Year collabs updated, bottle art competitions, and regional specialties galore.
Afternoon Snacks
Thai New Year collabs updated, bottle art competitions, and regional specialties, all on today's Afternoon Snacks!
With the start of those Circles collab dinners we told you about only a week away, we've got some chef shuffles to update you on: chefs Ben Puchowitz and Peter Woolsey have had to drop out, so Jen Choplin (new exec at SoWe) will be cooking on Apr. 4 and Sean Magee of Time will be there on Apr. 11. And we guess George Sabatino has some time on his hands now, as he'll be joining The Corner's John Taus for the Mar. 28 feast. The first dinner, with chef Jeffrey Powers of Ambler's Dettera, is still on as scheduled—and now we've got our hands on the full menu! Anyone up for some duck heart confit or roasted banana beignets with black cardamom, salted peanut custard, and ginger glaze? (Anyone besides us, we mean.)
First
Cape May Salt Oyster, Kaffir Lime, Thai Basil, Chili
Second
Duck Consommé, Lemongrass, Duck Heart Confit, White Radish, Winter Greens
Third
Roasted Maitake Mushrooms, Kabocha Squash, Pickled Mustard Seeds, Siamese
Watercress
Fourth
Poached Striped Bass, Snake Beans, Cockles, Coconut Tamarind Broth
Fifth
Chiang Mai Style Pork Belly, Bamboo Shoots, Green Mango, Scallion
Sixth
Roasted Banana Beignets Scented with Black Cardamom, Salted Peanut Custard, Ginger
Glaze
To be honest, we don't really pay too much attention to liquor bottles once they're empty, so if Patrón bottle art is really as big a thing as they tell us, you'll have to forgive our ignorance. But we do like weird contests, and Drink Philly has all the details on one that could net you artsy-crafty types $10,000.
And in all-important Things to Flip Through news, First We Feast has this compendium of "regional specialties that you might not know" As an aside, we'd like to thank them for not resorting to the completely idiotic but much more popular "X ____s you've never heard of!" conceit that inevitably contains only things you have in fact heard of, because you're the kind of person who reads food blogs. However, our own wild distaste for Provel has unfairly skewed our feelings for the whole list a little toward the negative—not to mention their labeling liver mush as "Spam-like" when, you know, more like SCRAPPLE-like, amirite?! Oh, we're terrific; high fives all around!
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