The Saint Lucia Food & Rum festival marked its return with a proof of concept pilot held this year. The festival featured a wide array of culinary and rum experiences across three days, drawing on the island’s rich culinary heritage with participating restaurants and events.
Chefs have to dress for comfort and utility, yet they also want to dress for style and appeal. Of course, most of the times this means blue jeans, but that doesn’t limit their choices. In today’s Chefs in Jeans we have chef and restaurateur Adam Hubbell of the daily popup known as The LUNCHPAD in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. Adam is wearing a pair of New York-based Standard Deviation‘s Beta jeans.
ABOUT THE LUNCHPAD (@ NOIR LOUNGE)
Created by Adam Hubbell, Mark Hubbell, and Chris Snowden, The Lunchpad offers an upscale sandwich experience in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Combining the finest ingredients with unexpected and original touches such as house-made habanero bacon and pickles made from an old family recipe, The Lunchpad is reinventing the genre, one sandwich at a time. Open 9a to 2:30p Monday through Friday and 11a to 2:30p on Saturdays and Sundays, The Lunchpad serves both the brunch menu and lunch menu all day long, seven days a week, and has recently introduced a full bar to their weekend service. www.thelunchpadsf.com
ABOUT STANDARD DEVIATION
Based in Brooklyn, Standard Deviation combines contemporary menswear with streetwear influences. Starting in 2016, co-founders Manuel Gonzales-Luna and Stephanie Park have sought to create a brand that their friends would want to wear.
The Beta jeans unique features:
See more here https://standarddeviation.nyc/pages/fit-guide
Phillip also has some great lifestyle tips on food and gardening that he’s picked up along the way.
Grilled Cheese is near the top of the all time list of North America COMFORT FOODS. It is easy to make, quick, versatile, tasty, and inexpensive. A 7 year old could make one, as well as a money challenged college student, or a cutting edge gastropub chef.
The Grilled Cheese & Beer Cookbook arrives just in time for the renaissance of appreciation for the grilled cheese. The book has a passion for all things grilled cheese and beer, with easy-to-follow instructions that make it perfect for any skill level. It contains over 50 one-of-a-kind grilled cheese sandwich recipes, perfectly paired with craft beers designed to draw out the full flavor of each ingredient.
Some of the recipes in the cookbook include Bacon Me Crazy, Muenster Mash, Dragon Ball Cheese, Revenge of the Swiss, and Not Your Dad’s Fried Bologna.
Here are two two cheesy recipes straight from the cookbook.
Ingredients:
2 slices whole grain bread
4 slices Adirondack cheddar cheese
1 granny smith apple
3 strips of bacon
Directions: Grease one side of each slice of bread and place in a pan on medium heat, greased side down. Place the cheddar on the bread so that all of the bread is covered. Thinly slice the granny smith apple and place it on one slice of bread so the cheese and bread are completely covered. Add bacon strips to the other slice of bread and cheese. Once the cheese is melted, put the sandwich together and tada! You are all set.
Beer Pairing: This one has a lot to work with for something so simple. A good European-style lager will do well to complement the sharpness of the cheddar and the smoky flavor from the bacon. Heineken and Grolsch would both do fine, but for those looking to accentuate the apple, why not try it with a cider? Although not beer, anyone trying this on a warm sunny day shouldn’t shy away from a nice Angry Orchard or Naked Flock to hit the notes a beer wouldn’t.
Ingredients:
3 slices of sourdough bread
2 slices of cheddar cheese
1 slice mozzarella cheese
1 slice of Muenster cheese
1 slice pepper jack cheese
1 slice provolone cheese
1/4 avocado
Directions: Grease one side of each slice of bread and place in a pan on medium heat, greased side down. Cover all three slices with cheese (in no particular order). Once the cheese is melted, put avocado on two slices. Slap it together and enjoy!
Beer Pairing: This is our ode to one of our favorite show, The League. Except, instead of it being Andre’s swanky wine bar, it’s a delicious sandwich paired with a light refreshing lager—one with some punch behind it. Otter Creek’s Citra Mantra is a pretty good bet if you can find it. If not, the guys on the show always prefer Stella Artois or Bud Light. Old post office boxes are a pretty sweet idea for a bar, though. Right?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kevin VanBlarcum is a brewer at Keegan Ales in Kingston, NY. After graduating from the University at Albany, he began pursuing a career in the brewing industry. Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Kevin currently resides in Pine Hill, New York. James Edward “Eddie” Davis has honed his skills as a chef from Brooklyn, NY to the Catskills. Eddie fell in love with the culinary arts and began to hone his skills at a local favorite, The Caboose.
GRILLED CHEESE & BEER
Written by Kevin VanBlarcum & James Edward Davis
978-1-57826-653-1, $16.95 paperback
978-1-57826-654-8, $12.99 eBook
Find it on Amazon here.
Published by Hatherleigh Press.
Distributed through Penguin Random House.
Available wherever books are sold.
www.hatherleighpress.com
A drink made of 100% Virgin Cacao Juice is definitely worth trying, especially one made from the fruit and not the cacao nibs, and uses technology to be environmentally friendly
What do you get when you give six different flavors of SIPP to six different people to try? Six empty bottles, and six repetitions of, “That was really good, do you have any more?”