Welcome Back!

After closing earlier this year, the Groove has re-opened in East Nashville (what is it with East Nashville on here this week?). These posts are for you, Mrs. Gordon..... Oh, the Groove is an independent record store that sells actual physical music (some of which is vinyl). Welcome back.

The Good Wife Supper Club

(this is the latest venture of a friend of mine from high school)

The Good Wife Supper Club is an experiment.
It is also a small group of food enthusiasts and seasoned cooks who are teaming up to do what they love – make dinner and share it with others!

Is it possible to eat with the seasons? Can our cooks find quality ingredients locally, so that they can prepare thoughtful, nourishing suppers? Can we establish a real network of suppliers that have names, faces and handshakes? And just as important, are there eaters out there who crave a fresh, seasonal, and simple approach to food?

The cooking of the GWSC has a deep connection to nourishment and community. Inspired by our pasts, the seasons, and homey traditional dishes we love. The Good Wife Supper Club will serve a family-style dinner every Saturday and Sunday night in a beautiful, historic home in East Nashville. The atmosphere is casual, warm and inviting.

How It Works
Saturday - 4 courses - 50 dollars
Sunday - 3 courses - 40 dollars

- Payment in the form of a one time membership fee is required to make a reservation.
- Please see our reservations calender and select the night you wish to come.
- Once completed, your name and number of people in your party will be added to our books for the night you reserved.
- Please arrive at 123 South 11th St., Nashville, TN 37206, at 7 o’clock PM.

- Menu changes every week. Sunday will be a modest version of Saturday. We suggest you BYOB.
- You will receive an email the Thursday before your reservation with the weekends menu and suggested wines that would pair well with dinner.

- Guests will be seated in our dining room at one of two long tables. Communal style
- You will always be able to sit with those you came with but you will also be sitting at a table with others you may not know.

- Please be prepared to eat what we are serving. We will not have substitutions available.

- Cancellations must be made one week in advance to receive a refund.

The seat is yours.
If you can’t make it, give it to a friend.
They’ll thank you!

Dinner for December 4th & 5th

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Nibble: boiled peanuts

Garden salad with radishes, their tops, lemon and brown butter vinaigrette

Onion Soup

Braised front leg and shoulder of Venison with vegetables

Pear Tart with ice cream

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Nibble: boiled peanuts

Venison Pate with crackers and garden salad

Venison Stew with carrots and mushrooms, homemeade bread

Pear Tart with Ice Cream

most produce is from Sulphur Creek Farm, Bells Bend, TN

The GWSC was created by Avon Lyons, a native Nashvillian, who graduated from Harpeth Hall and The University of Mississippi. After working in restaurants during her early twenties, she decided to become serious about cooking and enrolled in the internationally recognized Ballymaloe Cookery School, followed by a year living and cooking at the Rose Bakery in Paris, France, taking time to travel and eat all over Europe. Upon returning to Nashville, she spent two happy years working in the kitchen of Margot Cafe. Seeking to deepen her understanding of food and wine while cooking for others, she will gladly divulge recipes, insights and resources, so that together we may all become better cooks. She cannot overstate the influence of Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution ideals – seasonal ingredients of the best quality, cooked simply and sensually, and shared with others at a warm and inviting table resonates within her.

She will not be doing this alone.
We are all so lucky that these friends are involved too….

Casey Dailey, chocolate maker at Olive & Sinclair by day, master of the radish by night, will be in the kitchen with me. His vision of food is grand, and will surely be present in every meal. His lovely girlfriend...

Brooke Gillon is a farm manager at Sulpher Creek Farm in Bells Bend, TN, and will be a great resource for beautiful, organic produce.

Robin Ridell is the wine lady, giving suggestions every weekend on what to drink with dinner. Aside from being one of the easiest people to talk to I’ve ever met, she is a fantastic hostess and strongly committed to local food through her leadership in Slow Food Nashville and farmers markets.

Lauren Vandervelde is a graphic designer, home cook and enthusiastic hostess. She will be the lovely brunette managing reservations and serving dinner.

They look forward to
seeing you at dinner...

Guess Who's Back?

Just in time for Halloween... I'll try to finish the year strong with not a complete abandonment of this Blog...

For Football - Let's Re-visit These Guys

Best Coast is the West Coast?

I first heard the music at the onset of this year. I was intrigued with every 7" that came from Bethany Cosentino. With the release of her full length at the beginning of Summer, I was hooked. After seeing them in concert last night, I may have a crush on Best Coast (her stage name w/ buddy Bob Bruno & Ali from Vivian Girls). All of her songs that were overfuzzed in her early releases, now sound so much better live. If someone uploads last lights clips to the Tube, I will provide. Until then, here is some stuff from earlier in the year.

PS-If you like garage, sun pop, lo-fi etc. and haven't picked up BC - DO IT!

New Kings of Leon

Radioactive!

New album, Come Around Before Sundown out in October!
http://radioactive.kingsofleon.com/

Sorry For My Absence

This post goes out to Clayton Turner (who I never knew was on here). I'll be back tonight with some music. Sorry for my sabbatical. I had again thought about hanging it up. I thought Mr Holt was my lone reader.
Talk to you all soon.
- W

So Excited About...Inception

It's almost like Kubrick has returned from the dead to do the sequel to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Christopher Nolan, who has wowed us with Insomnia, Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight, is back for another complete mind scramble from the looks of it. Dicaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, the always creepy Cillian Murphy and Nolan's secret weapon - Michael Caine. I CAN'T WAIT!!!! INCEPTION !!!!

Man vs. Flip Flop

In honor of Bonnaroo this weekend don't be this guy....

Interpol Loses Style and Flair

Interpol is set to release their new album this year and have recently made the song, "Lights" (click to download), available for download. As they map out a tour of the country in support, Paul Banks has announced that bassist, Carlos D, has left the band. Interpol has basically been an NYC drenched version of Joy Division since 2001. Their slow droning anthems to their driving beats have always tickled my fancy. However, I will say I didn't care for the last effort in 2007. "Heinrich Maneuver" was a great single with a clever play on words, but the rest of the album left me flat. Perhaps this lack of creativity and too many long stints on the road led to Carlos's departure. He makes up 1/2 of the rhythm section with drummer, Sam Fogarino, but he was 100% of the spark in Interpol. His base lines and runs are amazing as is his interesting take on fashion if you like the Crispin Glover look. No one wears a holster like Carlos. He had turned into this Western look in the past couple of years. Whatever. Did anyone buy Paul Banks side project, Julian Plenti? I did. It lacks a certain something - Carlos! Oh, sigh. This may be the end of Interpol as I need it....I know Banks is the main songwriter but it seems like so much for songs like "Obstacle 1" and "Stella Was a Diver". Boo!

Here is some of Interpol's finest interplays between Banks, Carlos and Sammy - Fantastic!

Local Natives/Suckers @ Great Scott

Saturday, I had the pleasure of taking in a VERY intimate and SOLD OUT show of Local Natives at Great Scott (which is right down the street from us - I walked). Whit was down for the count, so I went solo. Suckers was the opening act. I got there way too early, apparently (9:45pm).I got to meet the Suckers and talk Nashville (they had just played the Basement below Grimey's before the flood). Very nice guys from Brooklyn with their debut album coming out in June. They put on a great show that I thought might best Local Natives - nope. LN took the stage and didn't hold back with 4 part harmonies and chants over pounding percussion and subtle riffs. It was amazing. I felt like I was seeing something revolutionary. I'm sure it wasn't and isn't, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Here are some shots from my crappy phone and some better ones from the guy standing right in front of me (literally) with a better camera. What a show! Go get Gorilla Manor their album, now!

Here's "Wide Eyes" from the Show

Happy Mother's Day

Wolves On Parade

New Wolf Parade

Out in June on Sub Pop - very nice!
Nice suburban Lord of the Flies cover....

Download MP3's
Ghost Pressure
What Did My Lover Say

The End of My Parents' Street...

Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid

Several times in life you are caught without a camera. It is rare these days with so much technology. With no iPhone, I'm relegated to the crappy cellphone camera as my real camera (Nikon sSLR) is too big to lug everywhere. Many of these times I've captured these moments but never shared. Here is a quick flashback to my Spring through blurry eyes.

In January, the addition to Tufts University School of Dental Medicine were opened along with our department's new clinic. 5 new floors - very nice!

views from Washington & Kneeland

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One of my patients is a lobster fisherman who also works at Fenway Park. After finishing his implants, he showed up to his post op appointment with a plastic bag. He handed it to me and inside were 4 LIVE lobsters crawling all over each other and a bag of ice. Needless to say, I had all variants of lobster that weekend with the final meal a tip of the cap to George Costanza and Kosmo Kramer.

The concoction for the lobster steam bath

The lobster en route to the pot with a wink and nod to the bear

The finished product

The important parts

Lobster Scrambled Eggs

French Press Coffee

Biscuits to boot!

Kramer stays Kosher

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On our recent trip home, we also checked out many new things around Nashville that have popped up since we moved to Boston. Imogene + Willie in the Gulch is a clothing store/mini-factory/performance space transformed from an old service station where they make their own jeans. You want them made to measure: you got it! They also manufacture Ralph Lauren's RRL line of denim there which will fetch a nice price of around $400-650 for a pair of jeans. Crazy! And yet it sadly doesn't seem THAT crazy after being brainwashed in Massachusetts. Outside the store depending on the day of the week is a van that sells Tacos (Mas Tacos), and they are awesome! If you're ever on 12th and see the taco truck, pull over and grab a couple. It will be much better than that wrap you were likely to get at Frothy Monkey (loser!). I also went by Grimey's for Record Store Day to pick up some things and to hear the Alex Chilton tribute band with Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide and Grimey himself. At the same time, I unknowingly missed the Raconteurs playing live up the street at Jack White's Third Man Records on 7th (I drug Whitney by there before we left town to pick up the new Dead Weather's record.....she wanted to die). We also sampled some chocolate from Olive & Sinclair's in East Nashville - very tasty. Finally, we had dinner at Whiskey Kitchen right next to Jeff Fisher the night before the draft. Oh, we also managed to see most of our friends who we miss so dearly. Can't wait to be back!

Imogene + Willie

Imogene + Willie plus Ella the dog

Whit checking the merch

What a nouveau western feel

Steak Biscuits w/ 3 sauces and a Manhattan from Whiskey Kitchen

Fried Chicken with Macaroni and a Pink Lady of some kind @ WK

Mas Tacos Y'all from Mas Tacos!

Back lot @ Grimey's - 1 Yazoo Pale, please!

Yup...

Inside the Store...

That's all.....

Nashville, here we come!
July can't get here fast enough!
We'll miss ya, Beantown, but
my thoughts are with you, Nashville.
Dry Up.

-W