On the menu were pork belly in tonnato sauce, jowls with American caviar, braised cheeks with pimento, endive and praline, and roasted neck roll with stuffed lady apple and organic rice polenta.
Sometimes, as with the roasted corn rolled in toasted bread crumbs, the point is simple.
But festival season isn't just a time to get drunk and eat hog roast rolls.
At the pioneering Modern Pantry, meanwhile, fusion queen Anna Hansen is putting on slow-roast rolled turkey filled with umeshu (Japanese liqueur -soaked prunes, shaliqueur -soakeder herb) ajowan.
From lamb tartare to flash-fried tender lamb cubes (sac tara) to roasted ground lamb rolled with spices (sebzeli lule kebap), the kitchen turns out one minor miracle after another.
Egg rolls, fortune cookies, soup dumplings, dried jellyfish, beef and broccoli, sesame noodles, crab rangoon, hot and sour soup, fried rice, chop suey, Peking roasted duck, spring rolls, chow mein, kung pao chicken, duck's heads, stir fry, dim sum, congee, caterpillar fungus duck, jade rabbit sea cucumber, braised abalone, I could go on..
Few urban Turkish families prepare the kokorec at home anymore, and the specially rolled and roasted spits of intestines are largely unavailable in retail food markets.
Another dessert, bhatsa markhu ($3 , short noodle cylinders that are rolled in roasted barley, sugar, butter and grated cheese, follows the same model.
Therefore, feeding whole or coarsely ground barley would be a more economical method compared with steam rolled or roasted barley.
Those can be nuts and dried fruit, but they can also be real gold flakes, roasted almonds, pretzel, chive rolls, jalapenos… you name it!
