{"id":24701,"date":"2011-10-05T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=24701"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:57:50","slug":"fall-culinary-recommendations-from-nyc-wine-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/24701\/fall-culinary-recommendations-from-nyc-wine-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Too Good to Share: The 22 Juicy Tips (Plus One Recipe) We Took Home From the NYC Wine & Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new season comes many important questions: Where to eat? What to cook? What to pair it with? And where better to get the insiders\u2019 opinions than at the New York City Wine & Food Festival? Talking up native New Yorkers and food industry mavens at the Grand Tasting then listening to the NY Insiders Panel with Master Sommelier Laura DePasquale left us with plenty to chew on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Butternut Squash Soup <\/span>
\nwith Roasted Marshmallow<\/span>
\nand Cinnamon Cr\u00e8me Fraiche<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

By David Diaz of Brasserie Beaumarchais <\/strong><\/p>\n

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What You’ll Need
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One medium sized butternut squash from the farmers market, peeled and seeded
\nHalf a piece of star anise
\n8 oz of cr\u00e8me fraiche
\n5 grams of ground cinnamon
\nMini marshmallows as desired
\nWater
\nBlow torch or marshmallows that have been browned over a fire
\nSalt<\/p>\n

How to Make the Soup
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1. <\/strong>Cut squash into large chunks. Place squash and star anise into a pot with enough room to cover with water.\u00a0 Cover with water.
\n2. <\/strong>Allow to simmer until the squash becomes tender. Remove from heat. Allow to cool about 20 min.
\n3.<\/strong> Place squash and half the cooking liquid into a blender. Season with salt. Start on low speed then gradually turn up until it’s on high. Strain through fine sieve if desired. If the soup is too thick, add more cooking liquid until desired thickness.<\/p>\n

How to Make the Cr\u00e8me Fraiche Topping
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In a bowl mix cr\u00e8me fraiche and cinnamon and a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n

How to Plate the Dish
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Place 10 marshmallows in the center of a soup bowl, use a blow torch and brown to the degree which you desire. Heat soup. Pour the hot soup into the bowl. Drizzle cinnamon cr\u00e8me fraiche and enjoy!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What Fall Ingredients Should We Be Using?
\n<\/strong>Beets and Squash.<\/em> Chef David Diaz of Brasserie Beaumarchais<\/a> is all about the beets. He\u2019s serving them this fall as a salad of roasted reds, yellows and candy canes with pistachio goat cheese. Diaz\u2019s festival taste, however, highlighted another root vegetable: squash (see sidebar for squash soup recipe).<\/p>\n

Sunchokes.<\/em> Chef Christopher Cipollone of Tenpenny praised the sunchoke for its versatility. \u201cYou can enjoy them as a soup, saut\u00e9ed, as chips, baked, boiled, fried\u2026whatever you can do with the potato you do with a sunchoke.\u201d You can also make a sunchoke \u201csoil,\u201d as Cipollone did for his grand tasting dish, by deeply caramelizing the vegetables, then combining them with flour, forming the mixture into a cake, baking it and then grinding it in a food processor.<\/p>\n

Best Thai in NYC<\/strong>
\nChef Cipollone falls back on Woodside\u2019s Sripraphai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Best Culinary Getaways Near NYC<\/strong>
\nFor a short and delicious trip out of the city, Chef Cipollone puts The Cookery<\/a> in Dobbs Ferry, Crabtree’s Kittle House in Chappaqua, and Pour Cafe and Wine Bar<\/a> in Mt. Kisco at the top of his favorite food destinations near NYC.<\/p>\n

Best Meat Provider in NYC<\/strong>
\nFrank Prisinzano, the man behind the East Village trio Frank<\/strong>, Lil\u2019 Frankies<\/strong> and Supper<\/strong>, and new LES restaurant Sauce<\/strong> (a grocery meets demonstration space) is stoked about the organic, heritage breed birds he gets at Madani Halal in Ozone Park.<\/p>\n

Best Health Food (and Beverage) Spots in NYC<\/strong>
\nTara Sheena from the Village Voice raved about Park Slope\u2019s The Green Kitchen and went on to recommend getting coffee at \u2018sNice<\/strong> or a chai at Ozzie’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Best Tacos in NYC<\/strong>
\nQueens native Diaz claims the tacos from the tiny Taqueria La Casa Del Idolo<\/strong> in Corona are even tastier than those from El Idolo\u2019s fleet of Queens and Manhattan taco trucks.<\/p>\n

Best BYOB Joints in NYC<\/strong>
\nLaura Manniec of Corkbuzz Wine Studio<\/a> likes to bring her own bottle(s) to Carroll Gardens pizza and calzone haven Lucali<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

John Ragan, wine director at Eleven Madison Park<\/a>, loves bringing his own to the intimate Chef\u2019s Table at Brooklyn Fare<\/a> (a crowd favorite of the NY Insider’s Panel). Ragan\u2019s other favorite spot for special occasions is Blue Hill at Stone Barns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Best Locally-Produced Wines<\/strong>
\nWhen it comes to drinking local, Manniec enjoys Bridghampton-bottled Channing Daughters<\/a>. Master Sommelier DePasquale reaches for a Hermann Wiemer<\/a> Riesling from the Finger Lakes. Natalie Tapken, wine director at Lure Fishbar<\/a> and Burger & Barrel, sticks to the boroughs with Brooklyn Winery and the Red Hook winery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the new season comes many important questions: Where to eat? What to cook? What to pair it with? And where better to get the insiders\u2019 opinions than at the New York City Wine & Food Festival? Talking up native New Yorkers and food industry mavens at the Grand Tasting then listening to the NY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":24720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,325],"tags":[158,310,663,44,609,247,243,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-24701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dining-nightlife","8":"category-new-york","9":"tag-coffee","10":"tag-culinary-getaway","11":"tag-drinking","12":"tag-long-island","13":"tag-recipes","14":"tag-tacos","15":"tag-vineyard","16":"tag-wine"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":24720,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6215683566_d83dee07d9-300x201.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}