Quietly Prune: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: March 6, 2017]

After the rigors of the Food & Wine extravaganza in South Beach, a quiet week back in New York in the residual snow. Some home cooking, some German poetry, The Battle of Algiers on video.

Oh and a couple of restaurants meals.

As for the home cooking, how about opening the Nero D'Avola to go with fettucine in a beef and tomato sauce? What about Bordeaux-style salmon, served over porky savoy cabbage, a dish I'd once seen demonstrated by Bruno Loubet? I'm not sure if the beef sausages were home-made (I rather think so), but I can tell you they were served with more cabbage and hash browns.

There was a lunch in the Bar Room at MoMA featuring grilled shrimp and coleslaw, followed by pork belly with sauerkraut.  Cabbage-heavy week. And some Albert Setz Sylvaner.

The same day, a blow-out dinner at Buenos Aires, the Argentinian grill on East 6th Street, still thriving today. A vast mixed grill of mollejas, salchichas, morcilla and riñones; vacío (flank steak) with papas fritas and chimichurri sauce. Trapiche pinot noir to oil the wheels.

Meeting and chatting with Gabrielle Hamilton in Miami had put Prune back on our list: that was the other restaurant dinner of the week, beginning with two signature dishes:

Monkfish liver, toasts

Marrow bones, parsley salad

Lamb shank, escarole with raisins

Cheeses

1998 Viña Tondonia Reserva