So concludes the last in my series of three collaborative brunches with the folks at London Paris New York (in Brooklyn.)

The response was so overwhelmingly positive that as soon as we all rest up, fine-tune some other areas of our lives, and do some thinktanking we promise to return with another food-art-event-series in some incarnation or other.

For those of you who are here looking for any of the brunch food recipes that I promised were so simple please email me and I will divulge all.
What I can give you now is a link to the ever-mouthwatering weblog Homesick Texan where you can find the inspiration for the Cheezy Grits I served (I just upped the jalapeno and cheese a touch.)  For the Vegan Grits just omit the cheese and substitute vegan margarine for the butter.

Thanks to everyone at London Paris New York for hosting (Jed, Zeljko and Doron especially) and the dozens of other people who helped out with these.  Love all around.

Oh, and by the way, these pics were taken by the strapping Andrew Strasser.

Photos from past Saturday’s brunch, sans any commentary.

All these pics (and more) were taken by the esteemed Andrew Strasser.  Many thanks Andrew!

 

  

 

         

Thanks to the forty-five+ Brunchers who braved the cold last Saturday to participate in my first commercial food endeavor and first multimedia collaboration with the folks at LondonParisNewYork. Hurrah! Three Cheers! Hope you had a great time - I certainly did. Please post or send me your comments and criticisms of the event. I’d love to hear feedback and ideas on what sort of thing you’d like to see in the future. i.e: more samurai centerpieces, more sitar, or more salads?

I’ll be posting food photos and recipes for the Spinach & Grapefruit Salad as well as the best darn Vegan Biscuits and Gravy soon but email me if you’re looking for the recipe for the Breakx-Mex Casserole… it’s a special favorite of mine and I’m not quite ready to go public with the recipe yet.

Thanks to the ladies and dudes at LondonParisNewYork for making the space-, land- and sound- scapes so amazing. Also, a hearty “couldn’t have done it without you” to the sisters who always impress me with their can-do attitude and ability to just plain get it done.
The Lil Sis endured a hangover and The Sistaster made the pastries:

A guest enjoys a vegan treat

And of course a special thanks to Z for turning 27 with progressively more style than when he turned 24, 25 and 26. Can’t wait to 28.

Happy Saturday!

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who made it out the Synesthete’s Bunch earlier today. I loved cooking for ya’ll and hope you enjoyed the show, the ambiance and the food. For those of you who missed it, it was hard to describe - sort of like dining in one of those cheesy/luxe jewelry boxes with a spinning ballerina, but the ballerina was a handsome young man with a strawberry oil-cloth apron and the music was tinkles and wails and sitars and the walls looked like an Applebee’s art collection curated by Dr. Seuss. We’ll do it again soon, but right now I’m very very tired.

Stay tuned for photos and recipes later this week.

The following photos are a week late, seven bucks short, and have very little to do with vegetarian recipes. Here’s my half-hearted tie-in: I dressed as the “Veggieburgler” to promote vegetarianism at the Idiotarod.
One conversation I had went something like this:

Guy Dressed in Green: Hey, you’re the Hamburgler!
Me: (Showing him the detail on my tie that said “Soy Power”) Well, actually, I’m the Veggieburgler.
Guy: Oh. (pause) I’m a snake!

A cold Fry Guy and the Veggieburgler

People were pretty tickled to see someone wearing a giant hamburger on their head and though we didn’t win we got a shout out from the judges here, though they incorrectly identifed us from being from DC (only Ronald, Grimace, and the cart are DC based.)

Enjoy.

More Flickr Idiotarod 2007 Hoopla here.

This is Vanesscipe’s first “commercial” endevor (!)

Email me if you’re in NYC and would like to attend.

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Paris London New York West Nile
285 Kent Ave #2
Brooklyn, NY 11211

12 noon to 3pm

Prix fixe brunch sound installation (very very veggie vegan friendlies)

“Hello” : friends and count’ymen,
We cordially invitation you for join U.S> for a fancy Roman/Brooklyn opulent brunch,
complete with 12 channel sound and visual installation.

Succulent and sassy food concoctions by Vanessa and sisters from vanesscipes.com with special assistance from Jed.

Sound performance / installation by :
Doron Sadja
Zeljko McMullen
Stefan Tcherepnin
Sadjeljko
M.V. Carbon

Video work from: Jay King / Mario Diaz de Leon
Paintings: Justin Craun + more…

We kindly ask that you RSVP  by Thursday, Feb 1st at 5pm - so that we may properly prepare enough food.
$10 - includes brunch, unlimited coffee, and performance
(we will have mimosas and bloody mary’s for extra charge)