AlwaysPartying: Brooklyn Cheese Experiment
Arthur Bovino — September 14, 2009
Pete Taylor, Josh Knowlton & Billy Denniston of Propeller Pale Ale, unanimous homebrew winners.
On Sunday at the Bell House (view site) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, amateur cooks and homebrewers battled to see whose cheese-based dishes and beers would take top prize at the Brooklyn Cheese Experiment. The well-attended and much-photographed event was sponsored by Murray’s Cheese Shop, the Vermont Cheese Society and Council and Sixpoint Craft Ales and presented by thefoodexperiments.com hosts, Theo Peck and Nick Suarez. It featured 17 cooks and 8 teams of homebrewers who were competing for cash prizes and gift certificates to Brooklyn Brew Shop, Brooklyn Homebrew and Whisk. A portion of the ticket sales were being donated for ovarian cancer research.
A judging panel included: Bon Appétit’s restaurant editor, Andrew Knowlton; Taylor Cocalis, the director of Education at Murray’s; the Vermont Butter and Cheese Company’s Adeline Druart; Chanterelle’s fromager, Adrian Murciathe; and the brewers of Sixpoint Craft Ales. They awarded top three categories for best food and beer. Audience members also voted on their top three favorites. Alyssa Lees’ cheese puff was given special distinction and awarded her two tickets to a show at the Bell House.
AlwaysPartying: Summit Wine and Food Festival
Arthur Bovino — July 28, 2009
Uproot’s Fluke Crudo with Blueberry, Radish, Peach and Vanilla Lime Salt
AlwaysHungryNY.com took the PATH to Summit, NJ last Friday evening for the opening reception of the Summit Wine & Food Festival (view site), hosted at The Grand Summit Hotel. Besides wine-tastings and dinner, the three-day festival was slated to include wine panel discussions and cooking demonstrations by Franklin Becker, David Burke and the Food Network’s Ingrid Hoffman, among others. Josh Ozersky of The Feedbag was also scheduled to host a “Sultans of Steak” demonstration featuring: Josh DeChellis, John Schenk, Anthony Goncalves, Craig Koketsu and Jayson Margulies, but his star-turn at the event was headlining his first Feedbag Burger Summit.
Our favorite dish of the evening was the Fluke Crudo with Blueberry, Radish, Peach and Vanilla Lime Salt by Uproot (view site), scheduled to open soon in Warren, NJ. Among wines present from over 25 wineries we found Badger Mountain’s Organic Riesling and a 2007 Montgomery Place Napa Valley red wine from Mouton Noir to be particularly enjoyable. Pictures of the opening night food follow.
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