Field Notes on a Feast

Monday, September 8th, 2008

In a few hours I leave for Prague, Vienna and bike routes in-between. Am I ready? Pretty much. Do I have time to post an account of my recent — and stunning –meal at Manresa? Not really. But I want  at least to share the menu and some notes I scribbled on it in hopes [...]

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4 Questions 4 David Kinch

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

[Photo by Chris Ayers]

Here’s what San Francisco Chronicle Restaurant Critic Michael Bauer says about David Kinch:
 Who would have thought that when he opened Manresa in Los Gatos six years ago that an American chef would have cooks from all over the world asking to learn in his state-of-the-art kitchen? Kinch, the protege of Barry Wine [...]

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Forget-You-Not the Flowers

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I made a significant sacrifice Saturday night: I shared the last of our chive flowers with dinner guests. Sprinkled over slices of yellow tomatoes, the purple petals provided both color contrast and a lovely light onion flavor.
Although the chive blossoms are gone, deeper purple flowers still top our sage stalks (particularly nice for garnishing cream [...]

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Manresa Does Tomatoes, continued:

Friday, September 21st, 2007

I always harbor a little guilt when I eat bunny, but the next course — a rabbit daube with basil surrounded by a tomato vinaigrette and garnishes of new zealand spinach — was so good that I banished mental pictures of Peter Rabbit and Thumper. The following dish was the only one [...]

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Tomatoes Triumphant: A Special Dinner at Manresa

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

On Tuesday evening I treated my tastebuds to a tomato orgy and they’ve been thanking me ever since. This tomatoes-in-every-course feast had four of us swabbing out plates with bread crusts — a reaction that won’t surprise anyone familiar with the cooking of Manresa’s chef David Kinch and his staff and the [...]

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