He plays on the street, accompanying tape recorded music on a pair of soup spoons from a Salvation Army soup kitchen, the handles wrapped in tape so he won't cut himself.
When next heard from, Mr. Sanzin had opened a pair of soup and sandwich carryout spots in Lower Manhattan with Dominique Drevet, who, like Mr. Sanzin, had worked at Bouley.
But it's worth all that, and the half-hour drive east of downtown, to experience the food of Jerry Traunfeld, a culinary wizard who flavors duck with lavender and wild blueberries, slow-roasts salmon in a giant zucchini blossom, and pairs melon soup with tarragon ice.
The cooking certainly seems to leap from Austria to Italy: earthy parsnips in a foam soup paired with fresh tuna fillets, or tender salt-marsh lamb accompanied by hearty polenta in tomato sauce and rich goat cheese.
At Chez Nous, choices include a minicasserole of fragrant pureed fish soup, a pair of dainty lamb chops or a coconut-cream napoleon.
Feresten said he was just telling the pair about this "weird soup guy" he went to, and they said, "That's your first episode.
Or a salad of Chino Farms vegetables ($16) might pair with chicken "noodle" soup spiked with chile, basil and shaved young onions ($14).
On a recent afternoon, a rich onion soup was paired with the 2008 Comtesse Thérèse Russian Oak Chardonnay; the escargots with a 2008 rosé; and the smoked duck breast with the 2006 Hungarian Oak Merlot.
For preference, however, results showed a significant shift in liking for the vegetable soup consistently paired with high energy, supporting FNL.
Leavoy's suggestion of the crisp and fruity Domaine Vincent Stoeffler 2010 Kirchberg de Barr Alsace Grand Cru Riesling paired beautifully with both soup and salad.
For the advert rating task, mock fruit and vegetable adverts were created using photographic images of people consuming a banana, orange juice, and vegetable soup, each paired with wording that indicated positive affect (e.g. "Give us a smile") or a social norm (e.g. "everyone's favorite") (Supplementary Fig. S1).
