Meadowood’s 12 Days of Christmas, Day 12: Christopher Kostow
The Restaurant at Meadowood’s annual 12 Days of Christmas guest chef series has come to its conclusion. You can check out past years here: 2012, 2011 and 2010. And catch up on this year’s prior dinners here.
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As is tradition, Christopher Kostow takes the anchor leg of his star-filled guest chef series, putting a tidy little bow on another year of Meadowood’s 12 Days of Christmas.
It’s fascinating to watch how the 12 Days series has evolved, as it becomes increasingly impressive how much Kostow and his team contribute each dinner. Not only do they host and curate the guest chefs, but they create their own dishes for those guest chef dinners. They came up with dozens of brand new dishes, mimicking a range of styles and cuisines, from the Thai-inflected Andy Ricker dinner with “stick food” and whole fried catfish to the David Chang dinner with abalone grilled in seaweed and turnip mushi. The Restaurant at Meadowood spent weeks, if not months, developing those individual dishes — and Kostow points out that in all likelihood, they’ll never use them again.
Here is the finale menu:
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Day Twelve of the Twelve Days of Christmas
December 21, 2013
Raw spiny tail lardo sudachi caviar
Eel smoked over cabernet barrel mustard of must poached tongue
Brown rice risotto cuttlefish matsutake pine
Cured christmas goose persimmon beet spicebush
Veal shortrib celery foraged mushroom blanquette white truffle
Vacherin grains cranberry salad rye
Apple lees fennel roasted white chocolate
A chestnut
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Harlan Estate
domaine leflaive
“sous les dos d’ane”
meursault premier cru 2011
harlan estate
napa valley 2000
the maiden
napa valley 2004
harlan estate
napa valley 2009
harlan estate
napa valley 2005
Previously
· Day One: Andy Ricker, Pok Pok (Portland)
· Day Two: Rodolfo Guzman, Boragó (Santiago)
· Day Three: Carlo Mirarchi, Roberta’s (Brooklyn)
· Day Four: Tim Cushman, O Ya (Boston)
· Day Five: Ashley Christensen, Poole’s (Raleigh)
· Day Six: David Chang, Momofuku (New York)
· Day Seven: Matthew Accarrino, SPQR (San Francisco)
· Day Eight: Mark Ladner and Brooks Headley, Del Posto (New York)
· Day Nine: Rasmus Kofoed, Geranium (Copenhagen)
· Day Ten: Nicolaus Balla and Cortney Burns, Bar Tartine (San Francisco)
· Day Eleven: David Kinch, Manresa (Los Gatos)