McClain and Izard both contributed to the menu which included a seasonal salad of warm pears, a seared scallop with XO sauce, lamb loin, and a cheese course amongst many more delicious items.
The pear picker comes back to me now, a long pole with pincers at one end to cut the pears and a net to catch them.
The trick was to come up with a brilliant advertisement: the best, such as a commercial for Pears soap, ran for years.
Cooks use teas as a rub for meats and a poaching liquid for pears.
David Cope, chief executive of Purfresh, strides past two dozen packers plucking Anjou pears off a conveyor belt at Diamond Fruit Growers in Hood River, Oregon.
David Cope, Chief Executive of Purfresh, strides past two dozen packers plucking Anjou pears off a conveyor belt at Diamond Fruit Growers in Hood River, Ore.
The pears get a disinfectant bath in water with up to five parts per million of ozone, which kills viruses (like the ones that cause hepatitis) and bacteria (like E. coli and salmonella).
Mr Bruce-Lockhart, said Mr Pears' singing left a "great impression".
But from the saddle and far into the heart of the Dixie Dude's 750 acres, I'm looking at a landscape crafted by Wayne and Eastwood: dried creeks, prickly pears, untamed, unpeopled hillsides of brush inflamed with a red-orange covering of the flower known as Indian paintbrush.
It hung out over a bend in the road, dropping pears all fall until the road was slippery and sweet.
Then it's a visit to Brooklyn for Brian Leth's recent addition to Vinegar Hill House's list of specials, a pappardelle with the garden-variety snails plus watercress, pears and hazelnuts.
It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.
For his first Slow Food Fast contribution, the Philadelphia-born chef shares a recipe for maple-glazed quail with butter lettuce tossed with parsley, Anjou pears and toasted almonds.
WSJ: Michael Schwartz's Maple-Glazed Quail With Pear and Almond Salad | Slow Food Fast
Meanwhile, up in Portland, Clear Creek bottles eaux-de-vie that showcase the essence of Oregon pears, Vermont Gold distills vodka from maple sap and Cold River, a family farm in the heart of Maine's potato country, produces vodka from its spuds.
To top off the meal, chef Vongerichten will create a Gorgonzola Fondue for guests to indulge with an array of garnishes including black bread, pears and pecans.
You can also reduce the pears' cooking juices until syrupy and dot the plates, using the tip of a spoon handle.
As a local group becomes well known, tree owners will often come forward offering access to their unwanted apples or pears.
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