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Top Shelf - Durango Telegraph

January 2009

 

On the local bragging front, Durango is well represented at a New York City gourmet dinner on March 6. The James Beard House’s “Celebrating Colorado’s Bounty” features, among other things, Steamworks’ craft beers and Desert Sun coffees. Three of Colorado’s top chefs picked fresh foods from throughout the state to be flown to the Big Apple as part of a menu that includes Foxfire Farms sweetbreads with chestnut purée and caramelized Western Slope apples; Monroe Organic Farms beet terrine with Haystack Mountain chèvre, hazelnuts and black truffles; Colorado striped bass steak with Cure Organic Farm fingerling potatoes, artichokes, smoked paprika and bread salsa; poached Western Slope pear-brown butter cake with mascarpone zabaglione and blackberry-cabernet sorbet; and some of the state’s top wines. The James Beard Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with a mission to celebrate, preserve and nurture America’s culinary heritage and diversity in order to elevate the appreciation of culinary excellence. The James Beard House is located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. In case you’re in the neighborhood, tickets cost $165 per person for the general public and are available at www.jamesbeard.org.