RECOMMENDED DISHES Lobster salad, grilled quail, grilled tuna nicoise, honey-glazed duck, sea scallops, cod and crab cake, gnocchi, chocolate souffle cake, lemon-raspberry Napoleon, panna cotta, apricot tart tatin.
"There's a huge variety of wild birds in the lake: geese, herons, ducks, sea gulls, swans," he said.
Season inside of duck with sea salt, and rub the inside with a third of the spices.
She makes it clear that she's not happy about her daughter's choice of a wedding menu: "Jenny wanted duck and sea bass.
The 13 main courses include four steak dishes, duck breast, sea bass, halibut and scallops, along with a couple of chicken dishes and a single pork dish.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Baked oysters, shrimp cocktail, stuffed artichoke, grilled asparagus, Manhattan clam chowder, shrimp-crab bisque, Oriental salad, chicken scarpariello, rib-eye steak, duck, salmon, sea bass, all desserts.
The 13 main courses include four steak dishes, a vegetarian plate, duck breast, sea bass, halibut and scallops, along with a couple of chicken dishes and a single pork dish.
WHAT WE LIKED Three cheeses with sopressata and olives, lobster ravioli with herb butter (special), pumpkin and sage ravioli with pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries, roasted beet salad with grapefruit and spiced nuts, Asian duck confit, sea bass with fennel, mushroom risotto, vanilla ice cream.
In high school Purkayastha started a food club called the Students for the Promotion of Exotic Culinary Experimentation and began hosting dinner parties that featured colorful fare like duck, live sea urchin, escargot and reindeer.
For a quick easy fix of real such food, I drive five minutes west from BevHills on Olympic to a tiny deli and eatery called Hop Woo where Peter and his chef prepare the exotic dishes which I alone among the gaijins seem to crave (duck tongues, sea cucumber, and geoduck clams anyone? Plus my favorites from childhood: shrimp with black bean sauce, pork and bean sprouts, special fried rice).
This is what I have been pursuing these past months; this is what I found so spellbindingly enigmatic about the image of those plastic ducks at sea – incongruity.
