Eleven Madison Park and SingleThread Farms Collaborate on a 10-Course Plant-Primarily based Menu

What does luxurious imply in 2024?

For award-winning chef Daniel Humm, it’s all about greens. “Caviar, Kobe beef, foie gras is from a unique time,” the Swiss-born Eleven Madison Park Chef says. “We have to adapt what luxurious means right now. We have to change our methods and never be so afraid of change as a result of it may be fairly lovely.”

The famously plant-based Humm is teaming up with chef Kyle Connaughton and head farmer Katina Connaughton of SingleThread Farms in Sonoma for dinners on August 1 and a couple of that may spotlight the California farm’s peak summer time bounty at its three-Michelin-starred Healdsburg restaurant. The menu might be fully plant-based, providing a uncommon collaboration between two culinary leaders and their groups.  

“Having a handcrafted meal put collectively within the second feels extraordinarily luxurious,” says Humm “It’s certainly one of a form. You’ll be able to solely get it at that second.”

The ten-course menu will function some collaborative dishes and a few solo ventures, all celebrating the day’s bountiful harvest.

“The peak of summer time abundance will drive the menu,” says Connaughton. “What we all the time do right here is inform the story of right now. Any time you come and dine, it’s such a mirrored image of the farm, produce, and flowers, at that second in time.”

This summer time, SingleThread’s farm is rising over 30 totally different forms of tomatoes throughout 300 tomato vegetation within the fields. 

“Moderately than one chef getting all of the tomatoes or doing one dish, we’ll do a collaboration, a celebration of tomatoes,” Connaughton explains. The meal will open with a picnic-style tomato feast, with friends eating on totally different preparations of varied tomatoes by each eating places. Quintessential California produce will drive the menu, with dishes that includes varied varieties and preparations of summer time squash and squash blossom, stone fruit, cucumbers, eggplants, potatoes, strawberries, and past. Although SingleThread sometimes provides an omnivorous menu, the particular occasion might be purely vegan, a pro-planet — not an anti-meat stance — Humm emphasizes. 

“The methods are actually centered round showcasing the produce and exhibiting the great thing about what a plant-based menu could be,” Connaughton says. “It’s actually concerning the appreciation for the agricultural facet of issues by way of meals and eating. Our farmers work for months and months and months to reap the vegatables and fruits that now we have for someday. The kitchen begins within the discipline when farmers choose each merchandise of what’s ripe and prepared. We’re changing appreciation and hoping that friends wish to search these issues out in their very own life.”

Although the $468 per individual dinners bought out practically immediately by way of Tock (a waitlist is out there), each cooks need the consequences of the ephemeral dinner to influence culinary fans. 

Buying at farmers’ markets domestically and buying produce that’s in season is a simple step to capturing the ethos of the occasion. The spirit of making dishes that may solely be tasted as soon as and by no means recreated can enchantment to any chef or dwelling cook dinner. 

“There’s lots happening on this planet that’s scary,” Humm says. “It’s scary to consider the place one begins to make adjustments. Greens aren’t scary.”