Welcome to the newest version of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly publication, Hey There, It’s Amanda, full of meals, journey, and procuring ideas, Food52 doings, and different issues that catch her eye. Get impressed—enroll right here for her emails.
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Sometime I want to have a cause to have a “cheese coaster” because the centerpiece of my dinner desk. I haven’t but found out a fair vaguely believable rationale, however I’m going to. I noticed this mahogany magnificence, which glides on brass casters, on the Stissing Home Craft Feast final weekend. You possibly can roll your 10-pound wedge of Stilton or Parm throughout the desk for serving. This one-of-a-kind cheese coaster is out there at Curio Store.
Nea created her personal vacation wreath (made from meringue, cream, and berries) and tower (made from crisped prosciutto, potato chips, and cheese, ofc).
Picture by Armando Rafael
We relaunched three of Jens Quistgaard’s Dansk Pepper Mills final week and shall be producing many extra within the years to come back (he designed greater than 70!). We encourage you to gather all of them, like this couple, who’ve assembled almost 50 Quistgaard peppermills of their Higher West Facet condo. I’m beginning with this one.
Final week I used to be in Portland, Oregon, for a Schoolhouse photograph shoot. Schoolhouse, the lighting and residential furnishings firm, is our sibling model. Lighting photograph shoots contain plenty of quick electrical work, fixture sprucing, set constructing, and tweaking. We labored with photographer George Barberis—take a look at his work right here.
Whereas I used to be there, worlds collided when Schoolhouse held a e book occasion of their retailer for Leslie Stephens, who writes the wildly fashionable Morning Individual publication. Leslie additionally occurs to be a former Food52 editor! And her debut novel, You’re Secure Right here, got here out earlier this yr.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t embrace some recs from my Portland meals outings:
Rangoon Bistro: Higher Burmese meals than I had in Burma! Get the tea leaf salad, in fact, but additionally the wat cho, or braised pork shoulder
Cafe Olli: Wooden fired pizzas, puntarelle salad, and a dazzlingly good chocolate cake.
JinJu Patisserie: I went for the croissants, however the blueberry scone was the winner.
Canard: he steam burgers are excellent, as anybody in Portland will let you know, however when you’re into cocktails with a savory edge, don’t miss the “Room With A Vieux,” which is made with Japanese whiskey, rye, oloroso, Averna, and…matsutake shoyu.
Final week, I shared our holiday-season sleeper hits. This week, I’m sharing the tendencies:
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Cookware and knives are trending down. Individuals bought plenty of pots, pans, and knives in the course of the pandemic, and the advantage of prime quality cookware and instruments is that they final for years, so persons are changing them much less typically. A problem for our enterprise, however good for the world.
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Wreaths & Garlands are one other space the place competitors has elevated—our new wreath designs have carried out properly, however our core assortment hasn’t. So we’ll be discovering you extra new, new, new wreaths!
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Tableware is taking off for us—persons are shopping for all method of plates, glassware and cutlery. Gen Z likes to entertain at residence.
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Playfulness is in. We’re seeing merchandise equivalent to this pasta keychain and this banana menorah fly.
If you happen to’re into work, serious about work, speaking about work—I’m!—then take a look at our CEO’s new Substack, The Nice Ones Play Harm.
Let’s get this week wrapped so we are able to benefit from the vacation!
Amanda
