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Allium Restaurant + Bar on WAMC's Culinary Corner This Week08:56AM / Tuesday, March 10, 2009
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. – On Wednesday, March 11, Chef Joe Nastro of allium restaurant + bar will be featured on WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s “Culinary Corner” segment. The segment is first in a series of four radio interviews that will highlight selections from allium’s menu.
The WAMC listening area is home to a vast number of restaurants and every.jpg) Wednesday at 10:35 a.m., WAMC airs “The Culinary Corner.” A member of the WAMC staff visits with a talented chef from a local eatery and together they teach the listener how to make a dish from the chef’s repertoire. This Wednesday’s segment will spotlight allium’s Celery Root and Apple Soup with Sage Oil featuring locally grown ingredients including celery root and herbs from Indian Line Farm and Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, apples from Green River Farm in Williamstown and local cider from Maynard Farm in Connecticut.
Future segments featuring allium restaurant + bar will include Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese, Pizza Dough from allium’s very popular Ten-Dollar Pizza Tuesdays and Wood-grilled Berkshire Pork with Polenta, Broccoli and Crispy Buttermilk Onions. Selected recipes spotlight locally grown ingredients when possible.
Allium Chef Joe Nastro -- Photo credit Jason Houston
The Culinary Corner can be heard as part of The Roundtable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio frequencies and streamed live at wamc.org. Text versions of the recipes – along with a link to the podcast – can be found at wamc.org/culinarycorner.
Opened in May 2007, allium serves New American cuisine with Chef Joe Nastro’s varying seasonal menu focusing on local, farm-fresh ingredients, and features an exceptional, well-chosen wine list to accompany dinner offerings. Selected as Editors’ Choice in Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England in 2008, allium has also been awarded Boston Magazine’s Best New Restaurant. The restaurant is located in downtown Great Barrington at 42 Railroad Street, and serves dinner nightly beginning at 5 p.m. allium is a member of Slow Food and Berkshire Grown. For more information, call 413-528-2118 or visit alliumberkshires.com.
The full-service restaurant is part of Mezze Restaurant Group, committed to the ‘buy local’ mission providing a wide diversity of fresh, seasonal foods from neighboring family farms, celebrating the bounty of the Berkshire region. Mezze Restaurant Group also includes Mezze Bistro + Bar of Williamstown, Café Latino at MASS MoCA in North Adams and Mezze Catering, which provides full-service event design and planning. For additional information about Mezze Restaurant Group, visit mezzeinc.com. |
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The most amazing "spring pea soup with mint and mushroom custard!! Never ate anything as freshly complex!
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