Guest Chef Event Featuring Kermit Lynch Wines! If you’re going to do a French tasting event at an Italian wine bar, you need to have a story. Flashback 1985: Living in New Jersey, Joe meets a guy named Sefton. Their respective girlfriends at the time were friends and introduced the two. In spite of all of their differences, Joe and Sefton became very close friends. One is over six feet tall, the other definitely not. One is an Italian-American, the other of British heritage. On Sundays at Joe’s house, there was handmade pasta and Sicilian stuffed breast of veal, at Sefton’s, there was roast beef with shallots, carrots, and Yorkshire pudding. Fast forward to 1990: Joe has taken to the trades, completed an apprenticeship and is working full-time in construction. Sefton has finished his bachelor’s degree and gone on to culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Not to miss out on a chance to spend some time in France, Joe heads to Paris one winter to hang with Sefton and his culinary school friends. After completing school, Sefton travels around the US working in various restaurants, while some of his peers open the original Blue Ribbon Brasserie in New York. Sefton eventually settles in Manhattan to invest in and work as a chef in a new Blue Ribbon venture. Fast forward to 2000: Sefton visits Joe in California, where he had moved in 1991. For a week, their time is devoted to nothing but cooking and enjoying their meals, paired with premium wines selected by either Sefton, or the Blue Ribbon wine director. Sefton gives Joe a book on wine, he reads it three times and gets a part-time job at a wine store where he meets Mike. The rest is, as they say, La Storia. Part ll: A French guy with an Italian name. A while back we had an unassuming and seemingly reticent guy named, Nick Dazzi, join our staff. Replete with the name and a patrician nose, he is a dead ringer for someone of Southern Italian descent. He is often mistaken as being related to Joe, who shares the characteristic patrician nose and is of 100% Sicilian descent. Nick started out as a busser, worked his way up to server, studied hard and became a certified sommelier. He is one of our most versatile employees – functioning as a server/sommelier, managing our wine clubs, and assisting Ryan, our retail manager, in buying wine and organizing our retail department. In spite of all things Italian about Nick, he is, in fact, only 1/32 Italian – with the rest of that proportion being French. His father’s great grandfather emigrated from Reggio Emilia to Burgundy, where his father was born and raised. Part III: Wine, food and the conclusion. Nick and Sefton both have a close relationship with French culture – namely, food and wine. Sefton will be our guest chef preparing all of the food courses for this very special tasting event, and Nick has selected wines exclusively from Kermit Lynch’s portfolio of French wines to pair with each course. A French tasting event in an Italian wine bar is one not to be missed! Sign up here enotecalastoriastore/storefront/winedetail.aspx?id=3686&depart=114
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:47:15 +0000
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