From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #360 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Sunday, December 19 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 360 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- December 16!!!! [Kerry ] Joni mention in NYT [Moni Kellermann ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:57:28 -0800 (PST) From: Kerry Subject: December 16!!!! Colin, I'm emerging from the shadows to wish you the HAPPIEST of birthdays! It was great to finally have met you in April. Has it really been 8 months already? Take care, Kerry Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:26:08 +0100 From: Moni Kellermann Subject: Joni mention in NYT I liked the way the author describes JM's voice - probably because he sees it the way I see it :) moni http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/fashion/19SHAK.htm December 19, 2004 SHAKEN AND STIRRED A Bloody Mary, Squared By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON IX days and counting if you've got a Christmas deadline. My recommendation is to stop into the Bar Room at the Modern on West 53rd Street, one of three restaurants created by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group for visitors to the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art. A little shopping, a little art, a cocktail. Relax. The world took God six days. You're just looking for a couple of iPods. The Modern, which will be serving dinner by January, is now open for lunch in the Bar Room only (until January, you must enter the museum to gain access to it) from 11:30 to 4:30, with a limited menu and, more important, a preview of the specialty cocktail list. Try the Red Square. It is a beet Bloody Mary. Don't laugh. This is a vegetable you will finish. Beets make the drink sweet, not acidic, as tomatoes would. And the Red Square is garnished with grated horseradish, which fights vodka's fire with fire. It is a welcome fire to pull up to during a brisk afternoon of store-hopping and combat with holiday crowds. The Red Square, created by Karen King, the Modern's beverage director, and Sandro Romano, an executive sous-chef, would work nicely as a New Year's Day cocktail too: a savory survival technique for the morning after. On a recent weekday the museum bustled like a late-model mall. It has more in common with the Time Warner Center, the city's other big new atrium, than with other museums. Escalators propelled school groups of fashionable teenagers and older tourists with auto-paint tans bravely upward, toward modernism's rich promise. Which is now a pretty cool shopping experience. Monet and Picasso and, like, whatever. "Bauhaus Stairway," by Oskar Schlemmer (on 5, Gallery 11), is what people had before escalators. In the Bar Room, Joni Mitchell, the darker, mature version reorchestrated with strings, sang her girlish hits in a handsome voice, lowered an octave by life. And that summed up, for me, the ambience at the museum's new restaurant: Joni Mitchell as a trustee, applying light lipstick after a light lunch, like all the carefully dressed pairs of women in the room. The successful men drank martinis, with food, at the white marble bar, alone. Like cocktails, relationships can be the most modern of arts. RED SQUARE Adapted from the Modern 2 ounces Stolichnaya vodka 3 ounces spicy beet and red wine essence (see recipe below) Horseradish root. 1. Shake vodka and beet and wine essence with ice and strain into a chilled 8-ounce martini glass. Garnish with horseradish. Spicy Beet and Red Wine Essence (for six cocktails) 3 stemmed, roasted and peeled red beets Salt, pepper, olive oil 1/4 medium white onion, sliced 1/2 tablespoon red pepper flakes 1/2 tablespoon black peppercorns 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed 1/2 teaspoon cumin seed Small sprig of rosemary, thyme, sage and basil 1/2 quart water 1/4 quart red wine 1/2 pound horseradish root, cut in small cubes (reserve a 1-inch piece to grate for garnish). 1. Scrub the beets and toss with enough salt, pepper and olive oil to season and coat. Roast at 400 degrees for 40 minutes in a pan with 1/4 inch of water. 2. Cool and peel; place in a saucepan with remaining ingredients (except garnish). 3. Reduce liquid by half, at medium heat. Strain and chill ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #360 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)