In celebration of the release of Western New York’s finest cookbook, Nickel City Chef: Buffalo’s Finest Chefs & Ingredients, Nickel City Chef Adam Goetz of Sample restaurant will prepare a special menu on Friday, December 2nd.
Guests can choose from a unique menu of specials featuring dishes Goetz prepared for judges at several of the Nickel City Chef competitions he has participated in over the course of the one-of-a-kind cooking series.
The appetizer course, a single Quail Egg Ravioli with Housemade Ricotta celebrates the Ricotta Challenge from the second season.
The small plate special allows guests to sample Goetz’s Maple Braised Short Ribs from the Maple Challenge featuring maple syrup from the Southern Tier’s Baldwin Hills Farm.
Finally, dessert is playful in nature, a dish that won the heart of judge Regina Schrambling (the woman celeb chef Anthony Bourdain called “…the angriest person writing about food today”). In the Duck Egg Challenge, Goetz’s “Sunny Side Up Duck Egg”—which showcased free-range duck eggs from Painted Meadows in Franklinville—Chef Goetz whipped the egg whites into a stiff coconut flavored meringue and baked it into the shape of a fried egg white. Topped with rich lemon curd “yolk” and garnished with grated cocoa (which resembled pepper), this play on the fried egg reminded Schrambling of something she would “expect to find at a restaurant in Paris.”
In addition to this wonderful menu, Friday’s diners will also have the opportunity to meet Chef Adam Goetz of Sample and the book’s author Christa Glennie Seychew who will be on hand to sign books. The new cookbook and DVD set will be available at Sample that night for 20% off the cover price of $24.95 (plus tax).
The book, which has been receiving rave reviews and flying off the shelves of area bookstores, gift shops and restaurants, features chef bios, local ingredient resources and stunning photographs from all three seasons of the hit cooking series. Best of all, the book includes 32 recipes, two from each of the 16 challenges featured, using locally-sourced ingredients, from shiitake mushrooms to pasture-raised heritage pork. The companion DVD documentary Nickel City Chef: Food For Change features fascinating interviews with chefs, farmers, foodies and fans and takes you into the challenge kitchens with the chefs as they cook.
Buffalo foodies eager to sample some of Sample’s competition-worthy food can reserve a table by calling 883-1675.]]>
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Calling the North Carolina Republican Party’s new congressional district map “surgical racism with surgical precision,” Bishop William J. Barber II of Repairers of the Breach was in Raleigh Thursday, announcing a lawsuit challenging the redistricting effort—pledging that the state’s voters will “challenge gerrymandering in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.”
“This is a direct attack on the state’s Black Belt district and marginalized communities,” said Barber at a news conference announcing the legal challenge, a day after the state House of Representatives approved the new map in a party-line vote.
The new map, which was passed by the state Senate earlier this week and cannot be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein under state law, will likely give the GOP an additional seat in the US House after the 2026 midterm elections.
President Donald Trump has called for mid-decade redistricting efforts by the GOP in states including Missouri and Texas, as well as North Carolina, with state Republicans heeding his demands.
North Carolina’s new map will likely give Republicans 11 of the state’s 14 districts by moving some Black voters out of the 1st District and into the 3rd District. Had the new map been in place in 2024, Trump would likely have won 55% of the vote in the new 1st District in 2024, up from the 51% he won.
Barber denounced the redistricting efforts across the country as “political robbery” by a party that wants “to rob people of their rights through this racially based gerrymandering... so that they can give power or keep power in the US Congress to engage in political violence,” including by cutting healthcare and blocking the passage of living wages.
“We’ve seen this pattern before—the use of redistricting and voting laws to divide, diminish, and deny,” said Barber. “But the truth is simple: When you steal people’s representation, you steal their healthcare, their wages, and their future. That’s why we will fight back... to make clear that in North Carolina, and across America, the people’s will cannot be gerrymandered out of existence.”
Barber said Republicans in the state Legislature are “gambling” to win another seat, instead of trying to win over voters.
“They’re saying, ‘Let’s move this county over here, let’s move this county over here,’ he said at the press conference. ”Black voters in Congressional District 1 make up approximately 40% of the population, and there’s a growing Latino population that makes up 7%... Black communities, Latino communities, and rural, working-class, poor white voters, if the districts are fair, have the power to build a fusion electorate that can overcome the greedy oligarchs’ will to control elections in our state.“
Along with filing a legal action against state lawmakers to challenge the legality of the map, Barber said Repairers of the Breach will hold a ”Mass Moral Fusion Meeting“ and public hearing on November 2.
”If they won’t hold public hearings, we will,“ said Barber. ”This is our Edmund Pettus Bridge moment... Black, white, and brown together—because our democracy is not for sale.“
