Shaw bijou attire8/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Get to Know AmandineĪmandine's debut album This is Where Our Hearts Collide (Out October 18 on FatCat records) has recently found a choice spot in my late night listening pile, right next to Doveman and the new Sigur Ros. Check out the following jasminlive photo and see if you can spot the celebs. ![]() Neeson's beautiful wife Natasha Richardson was also in house, as was Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Chelsea Clinton. That would be Ralph Fiennes getting the Liam love. He walked to the back of the pit and gave another man a rib-cracking bear hug. Next I noticed a very tall man wearing a newsboy hat. First I spotted Denis Leary and his family. About five minutes before U2 hit the stage, the A-listers (and B and C-listers too) started filing in. Friday night I was sitting one section above the floor, looking directly down into the VIP area. Rather than documenting every detail of every song, snippet, and sidebar from Friday and Saturday's U2 shows at Madison Square Garden (or GardenS, as Bono likes to call it), I will outline my personal highlights:įriday, October 7: I picked up excellent tickets for both shows from Ticketmaster about two weeks before the shows happened. You know, the one dancing like an idiot, spilling beer and singing off key. ![]() I no longer care about being labeled "that guy" at shows. I'm sick of pseudo detachment, cranky arrogance, and crippling analysis. I am committing to the following live show credo for myself: lighten up, have a great time, and damn worrying about being "cool". Imagine, having a great, sweaty time at concert!Īnd that's the point of this particular ramble. People were actually having a good time and showing it by singing and dancing along. Madison Square Garden was not packed full of chin stroking, head nodding ambivalence. These were the first concerts I've been to in awhile where there was absolutely no hipster B.S. Realizing I am predisposed to enjoy a U2 concert regardless of its quality, Friday and Saturday's shows were particularly and notably satisfying. ![]() Photo by Ricky Carioti.Please forgive me for this indulgence, but I want to get this off my chest: Lobster tail with yassa onion jam, puffed black rice and palm wine nage. And sorrel, in the dessert, is a fruity and perfumey West African hibiscus tea. Nigeria produces the most cassava in the world. A pave (pa-vay) is a Thomas Keller technique for making a dish similar to scalloped potatoes, with thin mandolin-sliced layers pressed together, except in this dish, Adjepong uses cassava, a tuber that is also called yuca. Goat is a more common ingredient in West Africa than beef, and piri piri is a dish born of colonialism: The dish is credited to the Portuguese, but its peppery kick comes from ingredients colonizers brought back from Angola and Mozambique. A nage is a white wine broth for poaching seafood, but Adjepong used palm wine, found throughout central Africa, instead. Yassa is a Senegalese dish of protein stewed in spices and onions. Barnard Clark went on to win.Ī few notes on the components of these dishes: In Macau, Adjepong had planned to serve Mantis shrimp, but lobster was easier to source here. So, when he was eliminated after his first course - he and his team had burned the lotus-root chips that topped his jerk-spiced tartare, and judges felt he used too many ingredients - it cut deeper than any other elimination this season. "The food that I was cooking is so severely underrepresented, anyway, that a lot of people don't really understand where that food actually comes from and how important it is to certain people," Adjepong said. As if to underscore the theme, the finale was filmed in Macau, an administrative region of China that was, until 20 years ago, a colony of Corn bread, a component of Barnard Clark's dish, is a descendant of breads and cakes that slaves made with their meagre rations of cornmeal. But there would be no Southern food without African food, because early Southern food was cooked by enslaved Africans. Adjepong announced at the beginning of the finale that his meal would "tell the story of the transatlantic slave trade and how those flavours migrated to the South." The other two contestants, both white women, cooked the Southern food of their childhood. ![]()
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