Here's the view from the kitchen window Saturday, after an afternoon deluge that left me soaked riding home on the J-Train.
Lo and behold, it continued to shine on Sunday for the Brooklyn Unfancy Food Show at the East River Bar, which brought out a flock of food-tattooed Williamsburgers.
A cupcake was cute, but I was partial to the artichoke, my very favorite of foods. I mean, could Pablo Neruda have written such an exquisite ode (
click) to an ironic cupcake? I think not, he needed the "artichoke, with a tender heart, dressed up like a warrior." This one is tattooed onto the arm of Annaliese Griffin, of Brooklyn Based (
click). She and Indrani Sen (
click for her for take for The Times) were talking about people who write their own wedding vows when I snapped this photo.
As it turns out, I'm using Neruda's poem to renew my vows to my favorite food, "the artichoke, with a tender heart, dressed up like a warrior."
It was a great time, with kimchee-slanging D.J.s (
click) makin' deals,
McClure's new beer-mustard basking in the sun (I may visit Bob's factory in Detroit next week)
and yummy Green Pirate juice for everyone--I concocted a combination of cantaloupe, cucumber and lime, which Indrani said was a natural combination since cantaloupes and cucumbers cross-pollinate, those frivolous fruits!
I also had a chance to chat with these cheerful cheesemongers from Consider Bardwell and Jasper Hill Farms.
They gave me some tips in preparation for my cheese-judging experience on Thursday, but I have to say, the intimidation continued when I found this photo of the judges in action at last year's competition!!
Which one do you think has a wedge of Jarlsberg tattooed onto their bicep underneath their lab coat?
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