He never swam beside turtles or pulled an ox or ate apple pandowdy.
Someone drew a candy cane during last year's 1940s-themed Christmas party, at which 50 guests — the men in trench coats and fedoras, the woman in long dresses — smoked cigars or skinny cigarettes and dined on shoofly pie and apple pandowdy.
And the food that had seemed so revolutionary under Mr. Forgione was ready to be pushed up a notch, with even more sophisticated meldings of French influences, like duck confit in a roulade, and fewer dead-on re-creations of classics like apple pandowdy or strawberry shortcake.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Waldorf salad; wild mushroom Napoleon; lobster salad; grilled lamb chops; Sichuan-coated tuna; sesame-roasted Chilean sea bass; lobster; apple pandowdy; trio of cremes brulees; chocolate cake tower.
Delectable dishes include Waldorf salad, grilled lamb chops, Sichuan-coated tuna, lobster, apple pandowdy, a trio of crèmes brûlées and a chocolate cake tower.
Apple pandowdy, heady with cinnamon, comes in an edible pastry dish with a little ball of house-made vanilla ice cream; so does pecan torte, only this time the ice cream is bourbon.
