I spent Sunday evening in a cool Oakland loft, listening to a guy do Sigur Ros on a double bass, while Cynthia Washburn’s amazing food filled my belly. Most excellent.
Yes folks, it was another fantastic Ghetto Gourmet. The meal kicked off with a wild mushroom tempura and a shiso slaw. The shrooms came with lemon wedges and some most excellent coarse salt with some sort of herbal somethingorother in it. Hard to tell by candlelight exactly what it was, other than wonderful
Second course was an amazing yam soup with black sesame seeds. I can’t stop thinking about it, and it’s getting me jazzed for the forthcoming eating– er, I mean holiday– season.
The main event was a soy-glazed pig chop over an edamame succotash. Oh how I love me some pig. Delicious! And educational, as I learned from Chef Peter Jackson sitting downtable that a succotash is what happens when corn and any
sort of bean-like edible join up to use their powers in tandem.
The wine flowed, the conversation wandered, and the double bass did whatever double basses do. Had a great conversation with the folks at the next table, which is exactly the reason why GG is so great. Try chatting up the folks at another table the next time you’re at a
restaurant and see what happens.
