Best of Blue Hill, Part 1: Face Bacon
Celebrating a belated New York “City” return, an early reservation at Blue Hill at Stone Barn Center was made for September 11, 2009. What resulted was the best meal of 2009. I shall present a few...
View ArticleBlue Hill Excerpts 2: En Pointe Micro-Vegetation.
Just another quick pictorial. Can’t begin to transcribe all the darling flowers pinned on the table, but an incomplete list follows: (left) cucumber flower, dill stalk, baby (red, green, yellow)...
View ArticleBlue Hill Stone Barns Selection 3: Smoked Kale
Blue Hill Stone Barns’ menu is decidedly simple yet simultaneously obfuscating. The left hand side of the menu lists a entire page of ingredients to be used during dinner service menu. The right page...
View ArticleBlue Hill, Stone Barns, Prelude 4: Melon Balls
… Continuation of the September 11th Blue Hill Stone Barns meal… OK. So the next amuse comes and brings anti-climatic downer. Whimsy is good, creativity is great, but… melon balls? Before the first...
View ArticleBlue Hill Stone Barns, Prelude 5: Tomatoes and Scenery.
Ripened tomatoes have equal amounts of free glutamates as scallops. September is peak tomato season; Blue Hill at Stone Barns went nuts with tomatoes. And why not? It offers a cheap glutamates rush...
View ArticleBlue Hill Stone Barns, Amuse Set 6: Corn, Cantaloupe and Pork
SinoSoul’s most excellent Blue Hill Stone Barns adventure continues… Part 6 is when the fun stuff really begins (not to say face bacon wasn’t any fun but… ) First, there was roasted cantaloupe puree,...
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