Jackie SayetLeggo my lycheesIt's in between tropical downpours in the Design District as I wade through the humidity to Michael's Genuine Food & Drink. Summer's making its usual graceful entrance, and I'm curious about
what happens to a restaurant with a menu that celebrates local foods when the local growing season ends. What's fresh on the mind and inside the
walk-in of Chef Michael Schwartz and crew in his shrine to vines? Like delivered today, pulled-off-the-tree-today fresh?
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Jackie SayetBringing home the Sir Francis Bacon.​Everyone's buzzing on bacon. Drinkable (like in the case of "Bakon" vodka) and munchable, is there ever an occasion when getting some belly in your belly is not ok?My Achilles' heel is particularly, and often, pierced in Hedy Goldsmith's pastry station at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink, where fatty slabs become confectionery c... well... you can fill in the alliterative blank. Jackie SayetCandied bacon-studded maple ice cre
