The U.K. cover of April Bloomfield’s book “A Girl and Her Pig”.
This year’s New Taste of the Upper West Side food festival, which starts on Friday, will showcase food from soon-to-open restaurants as well as dishes from current spots. And star chef April Bloomfield will be showing off her skills at smoking pigs by serving a whole heritage hog that has been smoked for 24 hours, according to Eater. Bloomfield will be serving the pig at Friday’s “Surf & Turf” event, which will be held under a tent in the schoolyard at 77th and Columbus and feature dishes from dozens of local restaurants. Saturday’s “Best of the West” event will also be held under the tent.
Bloomfield and her co-chef Ken Friedman are opening a restaurant and butcher shop called White Gold at 78th street and Amsterdam Avenue (the former home of Risotterria) later this summer. They’re partnering with butchers Jocelyn Guest and Erika Nakamurahe. Maison Pickle, the new restaurant from the owner of Jacobs’ Pickles that’s opening in the former home of Ouest, will also be serving food at the event.
You can still get tickets here! See pics of last year’s event here.
West Side Rag is a media sponsor for New Taste.
Great news.
The UWS is full of families and wealthy tenants who would happily dine out near where they live (walking distance) instead of trekking around the city. Hopefully restaurateurs keep realizing this and keep opening new places like this that will keep folks like myself and my family around.
The UWS has plenty of Mon-Fri foot traffic and on weekends it gets a ton of people, not only from all the buildings around but from tourists coming to see Lincoln Center, Museum of Natural History, Central Park,…
Great, Great News!
A Whole Hog being served in the Public School playground where students require free breakfast and lunch due to the poverty that the live in.
And Great, Great that we “wealthy” dine out and flaunt that “wealth” in any circumstance.
Great, Great Let them eat ketchup!
I don’t even recognize my neighborhood. What neighborhood?
What CRACKPOT pseudo-socialist, pseudo-populist, very-real-class-warfare-ish B.S.!!
The T.O.T.W.S. food fest (an annual event) will be held AFTER SCHOOL IS OUT on Friday afternoon and on the weekend, so there is NO conflict with the kids who “require free breakfast and lunch”.
AND, on Sundays, that very same “sacred” playground hosts a lively Crafts-and-Food Flea Market where people spend part of their (GASP!!) disposable income on things they probably don’t really need (GASP!!) but DO want, thus proving, according to Librul-Logic (and probably Fidel Castro or the late Cesar Chavez) that they are OBVIOUSLY selfish insensitive capitalist boors who spend on themselves rather than forming protest marches to kvetch about the poverty-stricken/hungry chillun who attend that school.
Re: “I don’t even recognize my neighborhood.”
REALLY?? It’s called the Upper West Side, and it’s home to a totally-diverse group of rich, poor, and in-between…..because NYC, like every other great city, has ALWAYS been a place of Great Wealth alongside Crushing Poverty. That’s life, baby!
Amen, ScooterStan
Religious reference.
Nice touch.
ScooterStan, I am encouraged to see you as the flagbearer of your posse, they deserve you.
Go Scooter!
zulu,
I’m guessing that you feel how much I like people from everywhere.
You know we all do belong to the same family of man.
dannyboy, you would like it in Venezuela.
A few months ago you halted people from posting stupid/inappropriate responses. So, why do you continue to allow postings from people like “dannyboy” and “ScooterStan” to continue. The WestSideRag is very informative to people like myself who live on the UWS. I think you need to evaluate amongst the WSR staff if postings are really necessary. Thank you.
ScooterStan and dannyboy are my two favs on here; half the reason West Side Rag is awesome is reading the comments, especially since the articles are usually ~100 words and take 1 minute to read.
@Independent – you i can definitely do without
MisterWonderful (an attempt at irony?) says: “I think you need to evaluate amongst the WSR staff if postings are really necessary.”
Here’s an idea that you obviously haven’t considered: Skip reading the Comments and then telling the WSR that they should just stop posts.
I usually enjoy ScooterStan, finding his comments refreshing and a source of welcome comic relief. (Though I certainly have my differences with him and have taken him to task on occasion.)
dannyboy I could do without but I still wouldn’t want to see him — or even you, “Mr. Wonderful”, be denied the opportunity to comment freely. If I don’t find a comment worthy of engaging with, I can simply ignore it. Presumably, you can do the same.
Who determines what is “stupid/inappropriate”? You?
Personal attacks and insults without any actual substance should not be tolerated, as they add nothing and only deface. Foul language and anything that goes beyond a certain threshold for vulgarity should also have no place. And obviously, there need to be limits as to how far a post can veer off-topic. Beyond those basic guidelines, however, there should be few restrictions. Let comments and discussion flow. Those who are so easily offended might want to stay within their own bubble of “safe”, heavily moderated and censored sites. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
MisterWonderful?
I don’t think so. But I still accomodate to your Comments.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. But I believe you meant Hugo Chavez the POS that wrecked Venezuela. Cesar Chavez is the Mexican boxer.
Cesar Chavez was the leader of the United Farm Workers movement in the 60’s-70’s. He led the workers in strikes and protests against oppressive farm owners. Many of us back east helped out by boycotting targeted products.
UWS is like Venezuela?
Start making sense.
What are you talking about!?!?!
The kids who attend PS 87 right next door are from some of the wealthiest families in the country as only folks in the top of the wealth pyramid can afford to rent or purchase an apartment in the heart of the UWS.
What is wrong with the wealthy eating out?!?!?! Last time I checked McDonalds served more meals than any other restaurant in the world so it would seem like it’s not just the deathly who eat out.
Please consider this typo:”serving a whole heritage hog” s.b. “serving whole heritage hogs”.
What are YOU talking about? Read about MS 44 (William O’Shea). You just highlighted how these segregated schools encourage the inequities and wealth and its flaunting.
What is wrong is the display of the Whole Hog amidst poverty. Yes, you can send them off to McDonalds. Let them eat ketchup!
Since when is eating pork a privilege of the rich?
https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/photo/close-up-of-roasted-pigs-head-on-plate-with-apple-royalty-free-image/556924861
It is the feast of Kings and Aristocrats.
That’s what I was thinking. Apparently cooking a whole pig is something rich people do? That’s news to me (and the South, and a bunch of Latino and Pacific Islander and Asian cultures that do this as a community/family thing.)
It’s an aristocratic ritual. Here is a historical literary reference:
“The captains made their way down the great hallway and past the great banquet room. Never had they seen so much food, whole roated pigs…” from: Horacan.
Itis a light into aristocracy. This passage appears on p20-1.Sound familiar?
What is wrong with the Whole Hog is that it may be a turn-off to many Muslims and Jews who may not become customers. This is not “hog wash.”
As long as the establishment serving the hog makes no claims to being kosher or Halal, where is the problem?
Should no one be allowed to serve beef in order not to offend Hindus? Maybe we should just ban all animal products, so as not to offend vegans. Or any number of other examples. There is simply no end to this kind of thinking.
I can only hope you weren’t being serious.
Yes, that’s true. And why is that wrong?
spot on. s/
When are you giving up your apartment so as not to flaunt having housing in a city where so many children are on homeless on the streets?
anon, I have noted your lust for having Capital Hill tenants homeless. Now you want to talk about me? Grow up!
No idea what you’re talking about in regards to tenants but can you answer my question please?
need to add back the phrase “flaunting a whole heritige hog at” just before “a beachy chic setting…” that got deleted in my past of this language from the official event site.
What is troubling is the justification that there have always been rich and poor in NYC. To the “wealthy” on the UWS (actually a parody of the wealthy): The wealth families in NYC have always celebrated in places like the Armory or Museum Museum of Art. The weren’t pretentious or flaunting.
My first resonse was not to justify your question with an answer, but as you persist:
I am disappointed that William O’Shea playground has been selected as the site of “a beachy-chic setting under an exquisite grand tent…It’s a super soirée with international wine selections, creative cocktails and so much more!
Cost: $105 per person or 2 for $185”
You saying that I should give away my apartment is a very weak attempt to dispute my Comments.
Yes, ending all fundraisers that support the neighborhood will end inequality as we know it.
Can you distort my comment any further to make your point?
Try being honest in your Comments.
This Comment is a reply to BUG BALL
Why can’t any of this happen in the restaurant wasteland of 106-116?
Need da dough, man. Read the official description of this event at https://newtasteuws.com/summerevents/
“Senses are bound to be heightened in a beachy-chic setting under an exquisite grand tent…It’s a super soirée with international wine selections, creative cocktails and so much more!
Cost: $105 per person or 2 for $185”
$105/person is hardly in the realm of for-the-wealthy-only. That’s the cost of a ticket to the theater, ballet etc. you seem very easily offended but so are most people these days.
Anonymous, This extravaganza is a show of how prosperous the whole-hoggers are. I agree with you that it is not real wealth that we are discussing (as I mentioned, the really wealthy have more decorum than to roast whole heritiage hogs in a party tent in a Public Schoolyard). Inappropriate.
Attending the Theater or Ballet is wonderful.
@Zulu. The event is over the top and inappropriate for the setting. My critique is not over the food preparation but rather the ostentatious display by the striving-rich in a Public Schoolyard. I provided the basis for my critique by providing a link to the official site, the description of the extravagant whole heritage pig display, historical references and a description of the Public School in which this “soiree” is planned.
Personally, I don’t understand why so many Commentors prefer to support this clear message of “Let them it cake!”
There, I have laid it out for consideration. Even revealing the slightly veiled expression: “Let them eat ketchup!”
Sincere questions, is it the type of hog that’s being roasted what bothers you? If it was another animal (considered by western cultures for human consumption) would it bother you as much? If the hog was parted and roasted in different sections would that be less inapropriate for the setting?
I’m not trolling just trying to understand.
Maybe we could avoid the predictable comments by asking the authors of each post to end each one with a statement that whatever community event is happening will (1) attract undesirable people of other races and economic classes, (2) attract undesirable tourists, (3) reflect the decline and fall of the UWS and Western Civilization, (4) be the fault of Mayors Bloomberg and DiBlasio, (5) reflect an unjustified benefit to the rich, (6) constitute a leftist conspiracy to deprive the rich and spread their wealth to the poor, (6) etc. Then we could skip the predictable comments and stick to new ideas and polite conversation?
This is the second Comment on this article instructing WSR on how to run this site. The first directed WSR to eliminate posts, because that Commentor found them stupid/inappropriate responses.
Now we get a Comment explaining which topics shouldn’t be discussed.
You two should start your own blog.