She is a caterer who travels as far as Florida serving native specialties such as venison and onions, corn cakes, and snapping-turtle soup.
Priscilla, who is the circus dance captain, prepared a meal of her native Brazilian specialties, including battered chicken breasts, cauliflower au gratin, fried yucca cake and, of course, rice and black beans.
Through the years, regional dishes migrated up and down the peninsula and across the sea, sharing a respect for genuine ingredients and an Italian passion for their native regions' specialties first; embracing the others when it suits their taste.
Indisputably, it had its origins, on the American range, when cowboys took the old Native-American specialty called pemmican (pounded dried meat, mixed with fat) out of their saddles, and mixed it with another easy portable, dried chilis.
"Los Angeles has become an anomaly," said Lloyd Greif, a native Angeleno whose specialty investment bank, Greif & Company, caters to smaller local companies.
At this snug, sometimes boisterous spot, which attracts both homesick Austrians and the city's more sombre food lovers, the proprietor and chef Kurt Gutenbrunner shows what his native country's specialties can achieve when they are prepared with understated grace.
By Owen Phillips At this snug, sometimes boisterous spot, which attracts both homesick Austrians and the city's more sombre food lovers, the proprietor and chef Kurt Gutenbrunner shows what his native country's specialties can achieve when they are prepared with understated grace.
In the years between his schooling, he traveled widely, spending much time west of the Mississippi River, and he made a specialty of depicting Native Americans, cowboys, soldiers, horses, and other aspects of life on the plains.
THE BOWERY DINER Mathieu Palombino, who put his stamp on pizza at Motorino, will be serving burgers, eggs, grilled cheese and other diner comforts, including waffles, a specialty of his native Belgium, next to the New Museum in a 140-seat space with Formica to spare.
A good source of nursery propagated native plants is eastern Plant Specialties (732-382-2508; online at www.easternplant.com).
