An agricultural college farm established with the support of the Rockefeller family.​ ​Blue Hill at Stone BarnsSilent Poets first new album in 12 years is on heavy rotation, as you’d expect.
It is located about an hour’s drive from Manhattan but incredibly difficult to book.This time we got seats thanks to Nori from​ ​Sunshine Juice​
First we visit the farm. Actually we’re shown around by the person responsible for stocking-up on vegetables. The menu has yet to be decided and is different for each table. Nothing is wasted by thinking what to cook by harvest. 8% of ingredients come from this vegetable garden. Everything else comes from Union Square farmer’s market.
And it’s delicious.
From the very beginning, the presentation of skewered vegetables makes us chuckle at how good the production is. We ate tartes covered in cedar leaves and sticks of fried pasta sticking out from dried straw. But the focus here is important of material. And good flavour. Bread is placed on the grill for us. At three hours it is quite a long meal. Everything was vegetables except for two or three dishes, and profound instead of unsatisfying. I guess it was all those vegetables that meant the next morning in the midst of jet lag I felt good somehow. As might be expected I couldn’t even touch the last dish of beef bone marrow. Is this why I’m looking at the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition at Brooklyn Museum two days later? (laugh)