La Belle Farm Trip With Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited by Baltz & Company to a duck farm trip with Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnete, owners and chefs of Toro NYC, Toro Boston, and Coppa. Along with other media people, we met up at Toro and took a shuttle up to La Belle Farm in Sullivan County.

La Belle Farm is one of the only three foie gras producers in the country. Everyone on the farm was super nice and gave us a personal tour of the farm. They took the time to answer all our questions, even the tough questions surrounding the controversy over foie gras.

After we were done with the tour, we were all treated to a fantastic meal cooked by Ken and Jamie.

SHARE's 12th Annual A Second Helping Of Life Tasting Event

On Monday I was invited to attend SHARE's 12th Annual A Second Helping of Life Tasting Event at Pier Sixty in Chelsea Piers. It's an annual event to raise money to help those with breast and ovarian cancer. I'm embarrassed to admit that I have never heard of this event and it has been around for 12 years! It was such a great event, great chefs, great people, great cause. Here are some snapshots from that night.

Gentry Chicken

This past Saturday I attended the first ever Gentry Chicken NYC pop-up at the Old Bowery Station. Gentry Chicken is run by Leonard Shek, whom I've known through the internet but have only met the first time on Saturday. He told me he was doing a fried chicken pop-up. Oh, you can't say no to fried chicken meals. Leonard did fried chicken 2 ways, original and Japanese (toshiro mifune). Both were mega delicious, crispy....juicy fried chicken. There were also pickles, salad with tomatoes, mac n'cheese, and corn.

Hit up Gentry Chicken if you want to find out where's the next pop-up.

Rockaway, Queens

Rockaway Beach, July 2015