The Great Gatsby New Years
ELM CITY SOCIAL Harlequin Salad dehydrated peas, pickled beets, roast shallot, curry crema "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."
Course 1 Oyster Thermidor Bay scallop & lump crab stuffing, gruyere, tasso ham, scallion oil "No amount of freshness can challenge what a man will store in his ghostly heart"
Course 2 Pork & Pastry Pork belly roulade Wellington, fois gras, courant preserves "Most of the time I worked. In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust. I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names, and lunched with hem in dark, crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee."
Course 3 Elk Tartare truffle, capers, quail egg, crostini Beef tartare, dubbed as beefsteack a l'Americaine was noted as an american dish in 1925 and was most likely served at extravagant parties
Course 4 Cold Fried Chicken & Ale Korean fried, kimchi slaw, miller high life pony, honey hot drizzle "Crossing the porch where we had dined that June night three months before, I came to a small rectangle of light, which I guessed was the pantry window ... Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ale."
Course 5 Ritz Carleton Lemon Cake Twinkie (The original cake recipe from 1920) lemon curd & whiskey filling, whipped cream "'Together we scrutinized the 12 lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop. 'Will they do?' I asked. 'Of course, of course! They're fine!' and he added hollowly, ' ... old sport.'"
"Courses paired with 1920's Great Gatsby inspired cocktails hand crafted by our house mixologists"