DESTINATION ...S.AMERICA

NO not me... this is the next location we will feature in series of food and wine tastings , like the previous wine dinner me and Michael's goal is to sell enough tickets to close the restaurant at least for dinner service to enable us to give the diner a true once in a life time experience...so i spent the better half of the day researching...when i say researching to put it into perspective for people that don't get to see me on the other side of the screen ...I obsess i wrote the menu today but in the process of writing one menu ...i wrote 6 maybe 7 ...fused maybe 50 or 60 new entrees
and courses..etc... sometimes it's one of my biggest vices my mind don't stop...i fill note pads at a rate of about 1 a month with ideas and concepts..... but anyway South America is always a culinary jackpot for me and its one of the most versatile of cultures like a throw back of America with its melting pot of ethnicity...there are provinces in Uruguay that speak German, Argentina Spanish , Brazil Portuguese .. I was so full of ideas.. in the afternoon i had to call mike before i ended up drafting a 80 course Chilean wine tasting... i had told him how i had read up on some really good wines from unexpected countries and asked his ideas on either concentrating on the big two exporters (Chile & Argentina) or should we hop around a little. he agreed that we should showcase as much of the continent as possible . So then came the difficult task of the order to have the progress ... i came up with key ingredients and cultural staples from each country i wanted to showcase than i tried to make it work...i decided to start at the south west coast of the continent and go clock work full circle landing back in Chile...the menu will be 7 courses the first 3 being real complex small bites maybe 2 per plate ..this is not how ever set in stone due to the fact that the more wine and food is paired it almost becomes inevitable the diner will get pallet fatigued ....I don't want to leak the whole menu because it has yet to be agreed upon but i will say there will be more than something for every one....and unfortunately there wont be any of the crazier stuff that these countries our famous for that i absolutely adore...like turtle soup, goose neck barnacles, beef heart and other offal..... just really clean S.American cuisine with some of the worlds greatest wines....