The executive chef, Anthony Theesfeld, a 1998 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of the venerable Stage Left in New Brunswick, champions pristine ingredients.
Palmyra not only is one of the most pristine places left in the tropical Pacific.
A British endurance swimmer who has plunged into icy waters around the world in the name of conservation, he says this part of Antarctica deserves its reputation for being one of the few almost pristine ecosystems left in the world.
John Muir, the naturalist who was making his name in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at about the same time, argued that pristine wilderness left in as wild a state as possible was the only true measure of conservation.
In a bid to preserve one of the most pristine places left in the tropical Pacific, the Nature Conservancy has agreed to buy Palmyra atoll, a spectacular cluster of uninhabited coral islets 1,052 miles south of Hawaii, from the Honolulu family that has owned it for nearly 80 years.
Sala y Gómez is an uninhabited island off Chile's coast that Dr. Enric Sala, marine ecologist and National Geographic Ocean Fellow, called "one of the last undisturbed and relatively pristine places left in the ocean".
The Wilderness Society has called for an end to BP's ambitions in the Great Australian Bight, which it calls "one of the last pristine marine environments left in the world".
"There are very few places left in the Caribbean that are undiscovered and pristine," said Jim Klug, the director of operations for Yellow Dog Fly-fishing Adventures, a travel company based in Bozeman, Mont.
His answers are so awesomely bold that I've decided to leave in their untouched, pristine form.
Leaving your apartment in pristine condition doesn't guarantee that "shikikin" or your security deposit will come back.
