Tastes of New York

My latest piece at the Barnes & Noble Review, timed for Restaurant Week, and building off a recent New York Times article about the restaurant Eleven Madison Park rejiggering its menu to celebrate the "romance and history of New York."

The George Washington Bridge serves as the inspiration for your next course. Tiny fingerling potatoes from a farm just outside Syracuse have been carefully carved into miniature automobiles, and are presented on your plate suspended between two corn-cob towers along a grape-seed roadway. The potato-cars should be dipped into the river of sauce that runs along the west side of the dining room.

Here's the link.