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Vinny’s Valentine
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David deVillier’s ‘The Lightness of ‘O’ ‘ can be seen at Gail Severn Gallery during this Friday’s Gallery Walk from 5 to 8 p.m.
Gallery Walk BY KAREN BOSSICK
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riesen Gallery’s glass exhibition, at 320 First Ave. N., is certainly a must-see as you head out on Gallery Walk between 5 and 8 p.m. Friday. There are some other noteworthy exhibitions as well, ranging from Gail Severn’s exhibit featuring the work of part-time Sun Valley artist David deVillier to Gallery DeNovo’s “Abstractions.” Wendy Jaquet will lead a free tour leaving at 5 p.m. from the Sun Valley Recreation Center in Sun Valley Village. The tour will meet others about 5:15 p.m. at Gilman Contemporary on Sun Valley Road. Jaquet said her tour-goers appreciate getting to listen to gallery owners and artists talk about their works. “They learn why something might cost $20,000. They learn about the sculpture Dave McGary has in the U.S. Capitol so the next time they go there they’ll be able to say they met the artist in Sun Valley,” she said. Here’s what to look for Friday evening: Gail Severn Gallery, 400 1st Ave. N., is featuring part-time Sun Valley artist David deVillier’s “No Endings/ No Beginnings: Circles, Xs and Figures Found.” deVillier’s human forms are influenced by primitive stone carvings and the paintings of the late deaf Boise artist James Castle and Bill Traylor. Raphaelle Goethals has layered wax and resin, pouring, scraping off, scratching into the surface, and effacing in her “Anamnesis” works. Both deVillier and Goethals will entertain questions during a free Artist Chat at 10 a.m. Saturday at the gallery. Coffee and refreshments will be provided. Gallery DeNovo, at 320 First Ave. N., is featuring “Abstractions” by Quim Bove in its main floor gallery. A group show featuring new works by Canadian artist Michel Beeaucage and other international artists is upstairs. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Fifth and Washington streets, will feature a short talk by Hailey art teacher Bob Dix at 6 p.m. Dix, known for his found-art works, has covered the walls and ceiling of The Center’s Project Room with charcoal and ink drawings that reflect his JapaneseAmerican heritage. The installation dovetails with the gallery’s current exhibition, “Crossing Cultures: Ethnicity in Contemporary America.” The exhibit features a
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Vinny Carpenter says he tries to stuff as many apples as he can in his pies: “I want apple pie with apples. I don’t want apple pie with crust and a little apple.”
Sweets for you…
Chef Vinny is offering a three-course $29 prix fix meal on Valentine’s Night that includes a choice of bruschetta or homemade potato leek or French onion soup, an entrée of chicken Marsala with pasta and asparagus or horseradish-encrusted beef tenderloin with potato and asparagus. Top it off with a flourless chocolate cake or strawberry shortcake topped with whipped cream. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. Reservations are suggested at 726-0095. The Teahouse is also offering Valentine’s specials on wine, tea tins and lunch offerings during February.
DON’t MISS Vinny’s Valentine dinner… STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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inny Carpenter piles a towering stack of Granny Smith and Braeburn apple slices into a pie crust. When he plops the last one on top, he breaks out into a song from “Miz Saigon.” “The happy chef!” says gallery owner Gail Severn, watching Carpenter’s dimples emerge as he smiles. It’s not an uncommon scene at the Tranquility Teahouse where Carpenter frequently sings his favorites from Josh Groban and Broadway musicals as he works. After all, there’s nowhere he’d rather be than the kitchen. “My personality is how I cook—fun!” he exclaims. It’s tough to get Carpenter out of the kitchen. Since coming to Sun Valley in 2007, he has been spotted in numerous restaurants, including Rasberrys, Cristina’s and Sego’s. If he has a rare day off, he simply scoots over to another restaurant. He’s done workshops on gluten-free quick breads and pies and other dishes
at Tranquility Teahouse and Rudy’s—A Cook’s Paradise in Twin Falls. And when he’s not behind a stove, he can usually be found chatting up his favorite products at Ketchum Kitchens. In addition, Carpenter works behind the scenes to set up the tent, order the food and tools chefs need for their demonstrations, prep food and supervise College of Southern Idaho students as they prepare samples of the dishes at the Sun Valley Harvest Festival. “Vinny is the backbone of the Sun Valley Harvest Festival,” says Festival co-chair Ed Sinnott. “Once we decide who the chefs are going to be, he takes over from there, doing all the coordinating that needs to be done.” Chef Vinny, as Pam Colesworthy at Tranquility Teahouse calls him, hasn’t wanted to be anywhere but the kitchen since he was a youngster growing up in Miami, Fla. He was at his mother’s side, baking cookies, quick breads, chicken potpie and goulash by the time he was 7. “The kitchen… Mom making dinner… was very calming for me,” he recalls. “We always sat down for dinner no matter
how busy the day, even if it was just for a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. Food was always something that brought my family—my parents and my two older sisters—together.” Carpenter passed up shop to take home economics—he even skipped his lunch break in eighth grade so he could assist the teacher with the sixth-grade home ec class. When school was out, he’d head to the deli department at Publix Super Market where his mother’s co-workers would let him put on a plastic apron and help them prepare deli items. At Johnson & Wales University in his hometown of Miami, he’d show up at 7 in the morning, and work until 10 p.m. each night, doing extracurricular work building gingerbread houses, decorating wedding cakes and crafting showpieces featuring petit fours and sugar flowers. After landing his first job at the Naples Golf Resort at The Ritz-Carlton, Carpenter gladly traded the beach and sultry weather for the mountains and milder
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