From the July 07 GQ, "The Wandering Chef" discusses how Jim Denevan who goes from farm to farm, garden to garden, putting on dinners that celebrate farmer's ingredients. Imagine a table in the middle of a field with 70 folks enjoying the creations of famous local chefs using famous local ingredients. You can go too, or simply enjoy the photos at his web site Outstanding in the Field.
If above ground dining isn't doing it, the April 07 Bon Appetit magazine covers Underground dinning highlighting the growing emergence of underground dining clubs springing up. Makes great sense, someone who loves to cook, putting on a dinner for friends of friends of friends, and now via the web, complete strangers. But certainly a more interesting environment to make new friends and enjoy great cooking that isn't produced by a commercial kitchen. Supper Underground in Austin, The Ghetto Gourmet in San Francisco, and Homeslice West in NYC.
