Every week involves a steady stream of food, drinks and people. Of course not every taste or conversation is post-able, but the range of experiences is usually pretty amazing. Lucky me. Discover highlights from December 5 – 11, 2011, some of which will help to fuel full posts.
December 5, 2011 – Jack Spade, a bag and clothing designer from New York, also sells some fun gifts at their Abbot Kinney outpost, including a glass that rates the level of alcohol pours from “acceptance” to “denial.”
December 6, 2011 – The Tasting Kitchen once again displayed their commitment to pork by preparing an enormous Berkshire croquette with pickled shallots, frisée and tart caperberries.
December 8, 2011 – Wood & Vine, located near the iconic intersection of Hollywood & Vine, has become well known for their charcuterie, which chef Gavin Mills makes in-house, including smoked salmon, country pate and bresaola.
December 10, 2011 – “Fish heads, fish heads: Roly-poly fish heads: Fish heads, fish heads: Eat them up , yum!” For Matthew “Mattatouille” Kang’s birthday dinner at Sushi Gen, we once again learned that these words don’t just apply to an atrocious ’70s song from Barnes & Barnes.
December 11, 2011 – Laura Ann Masura of Laura Ann’s Jams and Jessica Koslow of SQIRL helped stage a jam session at the holiday themed Artisanal LA event at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts.
December 11, 2011 – Viking Biscotti‘s founders get style points for their biscotti display at Artisanal LA, and for wearing Viking helmets.
Blog Comments
Dave Lieberman
December 13, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Ahem… biscotti are wonderful things, but please call that beautiful Scandinavian almond-pastry tower what it is. It’s a kransekage (kransekake in this case, given the Norwegian rather than Danish flag) and, with a bottle of wine tucked in the centre, it’s the traditional Danish wedding cake (except then it’s on its side, larger, and called an overflødigshedshorn or cornucopia).
–your resident Dane who went to a Norwegian college and married a Swede, who’s feeling particularly Scandinavian today on Luciadag.
Joshua Lurie
December 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Dave,
Nobody would ever be able to slip a kransekage by you. The kind man in the viking helmet called them biscotti. Are you saying a viking may have knowingly deceived me?