20 December 2013

Z is for ZUNI CAFE

Z is for Zuni Café in San Francisco. It is an exceptional place, for once you have eaten there you will want to go back and back. Under the guidance of co-owner and chef Judy Rodgers, the food was always cooked and served the way food should be. Sadly Judy passed away last month and although reports have reached me to say that her standards and terrific attention to producing flavour in every single dish with every single ingredient shining through remain, she will be heart-achingly missed.

Her menus and recipes live on through her cookbook. Judy only wrote one cookbook but it is as thorough a book as has ever been written and is sure to be found on the shelves of absolutely every food lover who has ever heard of both Judy and Zuni. If you only try one recipe it should be her bread salad and roast chicken. Fabulous!

We have reached the end: Z. This has been terrific fun and many thanks to Stephanie Alexander who instigated the Challenge to follow the alphabet for 26 days. In honour of her new app for her amazing cookbook, Cooks Companion, I conscientiously posted an idea to represent the letters of the alphabet each and every day. Congratulations also to Trudi Nelson of Fresh and Darren Lovell of Fishbone in Queenstown who also rose to the Challenge each and every day. Darren did his letters from his restaurant garden.

It has been such fun I am thinking of a new Challenge for 2014. The Daily Bite; a post about food, each and every day. Who's game?