Clare and I went to a Nickel City Chef contest on Sunday. The secret ingredient was duck eggs. Clare wasn't up for duck eggs so we bought some chicken eggs from the egg farmer, who was there. When I was growing up we gathered duck eggs with the chicken eggs, we had no feeling for their specialness, just their size - big - which was better. Never noticed they cooked any differently as the Nickel City chefs talked about and which I guess everybody but me knows.
But I digress. We thought the challenger Louis Zanghi of The Delaware was cute, funny, a good talker and a good cooker. He didn't win but we're going to seek his food out. Maybe he can marry Grace, we were also thinking. She was at home working through her imported fancy French stomach flu, so she couldn't judge for herself.
Nickel City Chef is cool. I'd go again. And I like the writing of Regina Schrambling who was one of the judges. A million years ago, when I was working on a cookbook for Saveur magazine I came across a story of hers about parsley, the most underrated herb (we both agree, I love when that happens) which is memorable. I will look for it and link it here - in the meantime, she has a blog so you can look too. And she's married to a Buffalonian, but the kind who doesn't live here.
Love, Erin
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