Saturday, January 21, 2006

Good Food, Bad Neighbors


Went to Green Zebra recently to celebrate my wife's birthday. All in all, it was a good experience - sort of a "choose your own" tasting menu.

Here are just some of the items we had:
-Marinated Fresh Mozzarella Salad, arugula puree, parmesan cracker
-Warm Blue Cheese Cake, plum wine-concord grape reduction, hazelnut tuile
-Crispy Sweet Potato Dumplings, fresh water chestnuts and dandelion miso broth
-Shoal Creek Farm Chicken Breast, roasted new potatoes, crisp skin and wild honey

Unfortunately, the tables/booths are pretty close to each other and couldn't help but overhear the group next to us whom I have to suspect are political science/economics professors. Talk about a snoozefest - they seem to enjoy talking about how smart they are, spouting off random facts, discussing the research they've done, coming up with hypothetical experiments, ripping on other colleagues for their "data sets", etc. Just seemed like a haughty bunch who enjoyed talking about themselves.

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