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Cane Pazzo
Red Phone Booth is a speakeasy concept with multiple locations, the newest of which was recently opened in Durham, North Carolina, by two entrepreneurs who also happen to be dentists. Their dental school department chair became their mentor not just in dentistry but in life, and he’s also an accomplished mixologist. So they riffed off of a cocktail that he made and it’s now on their cocktail menu under the name Shoulders of Giants.
One state down in Charleston, South Carolina, chef Mark Bolchoz is using the last of the season’s corn to make his grandmother’s version of creamed corn, which doesn’t actually use cream, and stuffs it into agnolotti.
Two states down in Florida, at Amal in Coconut Grove, chef Wissam Baki is celebrating the traditional Lebanese olive harvest with a tapenade made with Kalamata olives and pistachios, and in Grapevine, Texas, Wagyu beef and kolaches come together at Bacchus Kitchen + Bar.
Finally, in New York City, at Calabash, a new Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the West Village, head cheese is paired with cornbread brioche.
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