eat me drink me

Possibly one of the most amazing people I have met, chef Anne Apparu has been in the culinary world since she can remember.  Her parents ran a restaurant and her overall sense of flavors and spices really give her a gift at whipping things together.

“With a dead baby pig in her arms, Anne Apparu receives news that her good friend and former brother-in-law Dash Snow, has died. But instead of breaking down, Apparu has a meal to cook. So she gathers her ingredients from various local sources like East Village Cheese, the coop on 7th Street and Essex Street Market, and heads home to her loft apartment and well-stocked kitchen in the East Village.

Anne Apparu

“I decided to dedicate the meal to him,” she says, mixing sunflower seeds with crushed peanuts into the soft cheese she has bought. “The dinner is about life and death.”

The feast Apparu prepares is for the Carnival of Ascension, a circle-of-life-themed meal featuring fresh herbs over wheat berries, white and pink beets, potatoes and cheese ball “ovaries” and “testes.” Using garlic jam—a remnant from her time running the Chop Shop with her older sister Agathe—she stuffs and coats whole roasted rabbits, chickens and the pig.” (read the rest in the New York Press)

The Carnival of Ascension, a wicked cool party thrown by Adam Aleksander, incorporated food, sex, circus and mystery.  All the guests had to wear masks and the room was lit by candles and low light.  Of course, Apparu’s feast was the highlight of the evening.