IDEAS WORTH STEALING - (
September 22, 2008)
VEGETABLES ON A FENCE
Seems like everything is riffing on the US political scene these days, even party food. Although we thought this "press conference" interpretation was a novel way of pinning down the candidates.
Called "Tomatoes, Turnips and Carrots on the Fence" it was Chef
Dan Barber (
Blue Hill at Stone Barns, NY) update on the classic veggies and dip, and consisted of heirloom cherry tomatoes, baby carrots and turnips impaled on ordinary, 3-inch construction nails embedded into a plywood block. (Watch those fingers!)
The photos appeared in a
New York Times Sunday Magazine feature on the wedding of the Stone Barn's livestock manager
Craig Haney to the PR director of the New York Greenmarket,
Gabrielle Langholtz. (Ms Langholtz, by the way, is the editor of
Edible Brooklyn and
Edible Manhattan, two city editions of the US-based magazine chain that also recently opened a franchise in Vancouver.)
