Welcome to the most recent version of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly e-newsletter, Hey there, it’s Amanda, full of meals, journey, and buying ideas, Food52 doings, and different issues that catch her eye. Get impressed—enroll right here for her emails.
As a lot as I’d prefer to delude myself into considering it’s nonetheless summer season, the cool air, the maxed-out September schedules, and the creep of Halloween sweet in my native Key Meals is suggesting in any other case. To take the sting out of this somber actuality, I deliver you spiced lamb, a hearty salad, a soothing pear and almond cake, and what follows under . . .
Photograph by James Ransom
We revived extra gems from the Dansk archive, this time two trivets by Gunnar Cyrén, the celebrated Swedish designer who resisted working for Dansk for a very long time—however later created greater than 300 designs for the corporate. The unique trivets have been fabricated from plastic and designed for outside entertaining; we upgraded to forged iron, making them extra sturdy and, properly, helpful!
You possibly can learn extra about the elusive Cyrén right here. And see certainly one of his flatware designs, which is used on the annual Nobel Prize award dinners.
Photograph by Courtesy Amanda Hesser
Final week was a giant second for our sister model Schoolhouse, the Portland-based lighting and furnishings firm. It launched a residence assortment in collaboration with the style firm Clare V. Among the many 20 items are a striped couch, brightly-colored activity lamps, and jaguar-patterned rugs. The New York Occasions thought it was all fairly nifty. And we had a buzzy little get together on the Clare V. retailer in West Hollywood. You possibly can try the gathering right here. A couple of of my favourite items: the activity lamp, the lumbar pillow, and checkered shag rug.
Our Head of Content material, Josh Younger, and his workforce have been busy filming brand-new Food52 cooking reveals. Our latest one, Sure, Chef, simply debuted, and take a look at Erika Learns, the place our CEO will get a crash course within the culinary arts. Lesson #1: one-skillet rooster thighs with dates and olives with Tamron Corridor and Lish Steiling.
As promised, some extra highlights from my sourcing journey to Paris and Antwerp with Food52 GM, Jojo:
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
I depart you with a photograph of mankind’s biggest invention, which I found in Antwerp: butter wrapped like items of sweet.
Photograph by Amanda Hesser
Have a splendid week!
Amanda
