One of our best summer parties is Chefs & Champagne, a gala evening of sipping and tasting at Wolffer Estate Vineyard in late July, that benefits the James Beard Foundation. Since they are kind enough to come to the Hamptons each year, I try to return the favor by showing up Beard House in New York City a few times during the off-season. (OK, I know winter is not an off-season for NYC, but it is here on eastern Long Island.)
Though I usually go to the Beard house for some grand dinner by a visiting chef, my next trip there will be for a burger or two. A Burger Bash will be held for the opening of an art exhibit called, logically enough, “The Burger Show.” The artist Ludvic (just one name) has done a series of paintings that “interpret the delicacy of the burger in a wide range of styles and sizes from beef burgers to salmon burgers.” Ludvic says, “I always paint what I love to eat.”
Sounds like good juicy fun to me, and a rare treat.
James Bear House, 167 West 12th St, New York, NY 10011
Paintings located in the Greenhouse Gallery
Burger Bash Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011.