RECOMMENDED DISHES: Sardines; panzanella with tomatoes, onion and olives; buffalo mozzarella with roasted peppers; pizza with peperoncini and soppressata; grilled sea bream; rotisserie lamb with polenta and radicchio; peach pie; bread pudding.
In April, unopened packages of Apollo 17 brownies, fruit salad, peaches and bread cubes brought up to $4,100 each at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
From ketchup to canned peaches to bread, sugar is added to practically everything we eat.
In Tiverton, we lunched on tomato and peach salad, home-baked bread with homegrown herbs and slices of deliciously nutty banana bread.
Of the 168-and-counting recipes for hot chicken dishes, more than a quarter were fricasseed, creamed or dumplinged in some fashion, including Creamed Chicken and Sweetbreads on Southern Spoon Bread, Spiced Peach and Peas.
The deliciously moist peach and dried cherry bread pudding with warm rum sauce and the chocolate ganache tart topped with a scoop of almond-dusted vanilla ice cream were especially impressive.
WHAT WE LIKED Onion soup, fresh cavatelli with rock shrimp, Oysters Rollin, New Orleans-style crab cakes, B.L.T. salad, duck and foie gras pâté à l'orange, risotto with bacon, Brie and walnuts, pan-roasted salmon (special), burger, roasted chicken, pan-roasted wild striped bass, hanger steak with chimichurri sauce, peach tart, crème brûlée, bread pudding, profiteroles.
A waiter brought over a dish for Ms. Pierson and Mr. Potenza to try that the chef, Angel Ramos, was perfecting for 79th Street: curry and mustard-seed-crusted tofu with black rice and coconut black-eyed-pea masala, served with paratha bread and peach chutney.
I can your peaches and blueberries, bake bread, milk cows.
