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A\u00a0dear friend I’d known for almost 60 years was visiting New York from Miami Beach this week. We had originally planned to go out to dinner, but then I thought, while he had strayed\u00a0south a number of years ago, he knows this city very\u00a0well, having moved here directly after college; he might actually prefer\u00a0a meal at our apartment, if only for an\u00a0expanded opportunity for\u00a0the\u00a0extended conversation\u00a0we were all looking forward to.<\/p>\n
The only other consideration was whether I could put together something which would not divert me from that conversation, and yet would\u00a0still be\u00a0delicious (and at least a little special). The meal\u00a0we would share with an old friend had to be something of an old friend itself.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0plan\u00a0moved toward execution\u00a0when I was able to locate three beautiful tuna steaks on my visit to the Union Square Greenmarket that morning. Each of the 4\u00a0courses I decided to serve\u00a0(in the end there were only 3) was familiar to Barry and myself, and last night they almost assembled themselves (the symposium<\/a><\/em>\u00a0itself is all I can remember today).<\/p>\n I can recommend the basic outlines of this meal to anyone with similar entertainment considerations. Unfortunately I had to go with 8-ounce pieces of tuna, because that is what was available yesterday, but steaks of\u00a05 or 6 ounces each would be a very reasonable,\u00a0abstemious option.<\/p>\n Many of the elements in\u00a0each of the\u00a0three courses\u00a0was of local origin, although in the case of the Speck, ‘local’ meant only that it was produced in this country, not northern Italy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was prepared to serve a cheese course of five local (Consider Bardwell) cheeses and thin polenta sourdough toasts, but\u00a0we moved straight\u00a0into sharing a\u00a0basket of sweet cherries from Kernan Farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u00a0dear friend I’d known for almost 60 years was visiting New York from Miami Beach this week. We had originally planned to go out to dinner, but then I thought, while he had strayed\u00a0south a number of years ago, he knows this city very\u00a0well, having moved here directly after college; he might actually prefer\u00a0a meal …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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