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42 Grams

I am not a food writer, so I don't have the vocabulary to describe dinner the other night at 42 Grams. Let me just reproduce a few items from our meticulously-presented, precisely-timed courses:

  • Carabinero: finger lime, phytoplankton, kelp, and lacto-fermented vegetables
  • Sweet pea custard: bacon, whey, brown butter, herbs & lettuce
  • Summer corn: corn silk, roasted corn broth, polenta
  • Organic Irish salmon: tea smoked with fallen pine, muhroom dashi, spent grain toast, nastrurtium
  • Lamb neck: smoked yogurt, tamarind, fennel
  • Veal sweetbread: foie gras, ash-baked eggplant, golden berry

Plus five more courses. And we brought wine that we'd obtained in Como.

I said, "Even if I could afford it, I couldn't eat like this every day."

My dinner companion said, "Why not?"

She has a point.

Oh, look: they have a last-minute reservation available for 6pm tonight...

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