Most of these items are garden-variety pork projects.
"The ad speaks to programs that he called garden-variety pork," Mr. Bush said.
Martin, after all, appears to subscribe to Orwell's romanticised working class fantasy pub, where salt-of-the-earth barmaids are stand-in mothers and children roam free in the garden cheerfully eating pork pies.
The result is a menu that showcases cuts of meat alongside the country's varied and tasty produce: beef tartare with soft-boiled egg and tempura-like capers and garden flowers, "verjus glaze" pork belly with pickled stone fruit, spicy lentils and mint and coriander, a very unusual spicy "mini" haggis transplanted from Scotland with whisky and sweet potato.
"Much of this is garden-variety economic development pork that's hiding behind stem cells," Mr. Brodsky said.
On our first evening, Chris serves an organic pork dish, with garden greens and homemade salsa.
Low- or no-food miles are crucial to head chef James Golding's soon-to-be signature dishes: wood pigeon salad, cured beef and beets, vegetable tempura, Lyme Bay scallops with peas, beans and smoked pork loin, and garden mint mousse with chocolate ice-cream.
Jeffrey, in Manhattan, may have Manolos, Murano glass and a D.J. all under one roof, but where else can you pick up a rock-garden fountain, a bag of pork rinds and a "mink" blanket (that at $19.99 looks delightfully like a Michael Kors fur beach towel), all on the same block?
The venture emphasizes use of local Hudson Valley products, including fruit and vegetables from the estate gardens, as well as poultry and pork bred on the grounds.
Readers are grilling "Savoyard lake trout filled with the garden's first chervil," "pizza with roasted pork shoulder, fresh mozzarella, oregano and garlic," lamb chops, even mashed potatoes.
WHAT WE LIKED Kalbi beef salad, seafood garden salad, clam soup, spicy tuna martini, pork belly barbecue, pan-fried white tuna with scallions, sizzling stone pot bibimbap.
