I’m a huge fan of Chef Chris Rendell and his team. I had an incredible meal at Mary Queen of Scots last year though sadly I haven’t had the chance to dine at Whitehall yet. Yeah I know I suck.
I want to say a big thank you to Chef Chris Rendell, Chef Ryan Butler and their team for letting me into their kitchen and snap some photos. Also thanks to my friend Danielle, she works for Chef Ryan Butler, for helping me out with setting up the shoot.
This past Monday was the Food52 Piglet Party. For people that don’t know the Piglet, it’s basically having cookbooks go head to head with one another till you have only one book left. Each round there are judges picking which book to move onto the next bracket. In the end Alice Waters picked Joe Beef over Momofuku Milk Bar.
The party was loads of fun. I got to see some old friends, few new acquaintances and shook hands with an idol (SARA JENKINS OF PORCHETTA!!)
I also found out about the Craft Coffee and SoCo Creamery (ARGH their espresso chip ice cream was so good).
Here’s a great capture from yesterday’s photo shoot at the Big Gay Ice Cream shop.
Couple months ago I attended the Dim Sum Y’all dinner at City Grit, run by Sarah Simmons. Then I went back to take some behind the scenes photos and I (smartly) picked the nights that Chef Drew Robinson from Jim ‘N Nicks BBQ was guest chefting. And oh my was it awesome to take photos and to be in the kitchen surrounded by pork belly, homemade ham(!), sausages and pimento cheese (if you’ve been a regular at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party, you’ll know about this dish), and bbq pork shoulder.
Chef Josh Gentry, of the soon-to-be-open Little Donkey in Birmingham, Al did his dinner the night before and was there to help out Chef Robinson, was constantly blasting music and kept everyone pumped out during dinner service.
Anyone wanna take a road trip to Alabama?
This past Sunday was the 2nd Annual New Amsterdam Market Ice Cream Sunday. Besides getting to see some friends (La Newyorkina and Steve’s Ice Cream), I was finally able to try The Bent Spoon. I have heard so much GREAT things about them and their ice cream did not disappoint (planning a trip to Princeton soon). Actually every tiny scoop of ice cream I had from all the vendors were great.
