forage menu - viet pham

january 18, 2013

cider
savory granola, yogurt and elderberries
frozen beet and horseradish
trout skin
sunchokes cooked in hay

pumpkin and fresh cheese
carrots with buttermilk, pistachios from hurricane
fresh trout roe
potato, egg yolk and dill, salt lake seabeans
trout with vegetable shoots, roasted trout broth
cabbage in different forms with elk heart tartar
onion in vegetable toffee, grains and mushrooms
elk with turnips and our own mead

pine and buttermilk
celery root and chervil
sunchokes with salted butter ice cream
acorn and burnt cinnamon

chef bowman brown and proprietor viet pham

comments:  was like going to a dance concert, an art museum and a restaurant - all in one experience

the gatsby project - althouse

It sounds petty, but the only thing I don't like about the Gatsby Project is that I didn't think of it.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20Gatsby%20project

beauty - the chronicle review

Whenever we say the word "beautiful" in front of others, [Dave Hickey] argues, our feelings are transformed from private experiences into actions with public consequences, taking us into the political arena of give and take—what he calls "wrangling" over ideas that, in essence, resembles the disputes over the value of physical things in the capitalist marketplace. We utter the word "beauty," Hickey contends, at least in part "because we are good democrats, who aspire to transparency and consensus."

jorge luis borges - the aleph

I saw all the ants on the planet

http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html

best - hugo lindgren - be wrong as fast as you can

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/be-wrong-as-fast-as-you-can.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

best first paragraph of a book - Melville - Moby Dick

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;

whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

best first words of a book - Melville - Moby Dick

Call me Ishmael.

 

best lyrics - they might be giants - whistling in the dark

There's only one thing that I know how to do well
And I've often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that's be you,
Be what you're like,
Be like yourself,
And so I'm having a wonderful time
But I'd rather be whistling in the dark