Had a party last night & met Sur La Table owner Renee Behnke. What a dynamo!

Sneak peak at the menu

My friend Becky Selengut just sent me her tentative menu. Good thing she's a private chef or I'd be eating at her resto all the time!

Menu (tentative):

Raw oyster bar with champagne gelee and pickled red onion mignonette

Dungeness crab and apple "ravioli" with brown butter, shiso and apple foam

Wok-smoked Halibut with morels, fiddleheads, fried nettles and nettle sauce, with salmonberry blossoms

Northwest cheese plate with homemade rhubarb-thyme jam, homemade crackers

Dana's dessert

PS. I've linked to my friend Becky's cookbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Seasonal-Cookbook-American-Culinary/dp/9768200464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239485977&sr=8-1

 
My job has me juggling an element of "fun" (more)

but not on that kind of influential scale. I know chefs can be impossible in many different ways. I wish you all the best...your menu is fabulous. I'm afraid I have to pass...there's a school expecting me to keep it running that day and the next. I'd give my eye teeth to meet someone like John Besh. He seems to really know his stuff and yet maintain some humanity in the mix. I hope he's as light and cheerful in person as he is in the FN shows.

 
John's going to be on tour with his new book, due out this fall. I'll keep you posted

about where he's going to be. We're connecting on this trip because there are no plans to have him pass through Seattle on book tour. But I've seen a sneak preview of his book and it looks fab!

Stay tuned. I interviewed John a couple weeks ago and it was great. I need to get it typed up and hopefully you'll find it interesting. I certainly did!

 
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