Dinner: a catalog of mozzarellas, oven-roasted baby carrots in a riot of colors, a salad like an accidental garden in a bowl, Santa Barbara spot prawns and pork dredged in fennel pollen and rack of lamb all roasted over an outdoor fireplace. This is what you have when Nancy Silverton invites Alice Waters to dinner–and you are given the privilege of being invited too. But aside from the stellar company and the happy site of Matt Molina stationed in front of the fire all evening and lo, the food, what I found most intriguing was a copper pot of drawn butter keeping warm on the back of the fire all evening: simple, classic, exquisite. The conversation eddied–Nancy is writing a Mozza cookbook, Alice is considering opening a restaurant in Los Angeles, there are fundraisers to attend and gardens to visit–the sky darkened, the temperature fell, the plates cleared, the copper pot remained.
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sounds like an awesome time!