ENGLISH - ARTICLE - Can Second Graders Appreciate a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal?
For the magazine’s fall Food issue, we treated six
second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn to dinner at Daniel, where the
seven-course tasting menu goes for $220 a person
One Saturday afternoon last month, six second graders
from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn got a head start on the fine-dining life when they
visited the acclaimed French restaurant Daniel.
There, five waiters presented
them with a seven-course tasting menu (after the trio of canapés and an amuse-bouche, naturellement).
The
meal was overseen by the star chef and eponym himself, Daniel Boulud, whose
goal was, he says, “for the children to really discover a lot of flavor, a lot
of layers, a lot of texture.”
These discoveries included Smoked Paprika Cured
Hamachi (the “most-foreign thing for them,” Boulud says), Crispy Japanese
Snapper (“which they loved to see”) and Wagyu Beef Rib-Eye (“a big success”).
To capture the children’s reactions, the magazine asked Jeffrey Blitz, the
director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Spellbound,” to make a video.
The initiates seemed to enjoy the experience,
but that isn’t to say they loved all those flavors and textures.
At one point,
after tasting a custom-made nonalcoholic cocktail, 7-year-old Chester Parish
said: “This is, like, the only good course.
It’s yummy.”
.- an issue: un problema, un asunto, una cuestión.
.- a grader: de X grado, de X curso, de X año.
.- p.s.: post secondary
.- at Daniel: Casa Daniel (En el establecimiento de, en el Restaurante de)
.- To get a head start
on: tener ventaja sobre
.- fine: fino, refinado, elegante
.- acclaimed: aclamado, aplaudido
.- to oversee: supervisor,
monitorizar (USA)
.- an eponym: un epónimo
.- a layer: una capa, un estrato, una película
.- to include: incluir
.- to smoke: humear
.- to cure: tartar, curar, sanar
.- foreign: de fuera, extranjero
.- a snapper: mojarra
.- an initiate: un/a iniciado/a
.- to custom: hacer a medida, tunear
.- yummy: delicioso
p.s.:
Education in the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States
