Deborah: life, love, food.Deborah Stanton, chef and coowner of her namesake restaurant in Greenwich Village with business partner David Oh, uses a "subtitle" to define her establishment: Life, Love, Food. Is Deborah, a lesbian chef with years of national experience as a restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. , telling us something about herself or her restaurant? Both. Bountiful portions of all three are served up in her restaurant, a sleek, red-banqueted storefront in an unglamorous corner of the West Village. When we answered "yes" to our pretty blond waitress (just moved to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of from San Francisco to pursue an acting career) who asked if we had enjoyed our roasted baby beet salad with spiced walnuts, she added, "That's the love part. And more love from Deborah is on the way with the main course." Dapper Dapper lawyer’s clerk; swindled into believing himself perfect gambler. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist] See : Dupery in her starched-white chef jacket, Deborah presides at both the bar and open-air kitchen, where she can be seen mixing exotic drinks as alluring as liquid jewels and giving impromptu cooking lessons to the line cooks. From the way she greets her faithful clientele (expect a hug, someday), by her estimate "80% gay and lesbian," you can see she has more energy than can ever be dispelled. Certainly much of that energy and enthusiasm winds up in the pot and pan--in her fresh angel hair pasta with Italian tuna, a sweet soy-glazed monkfish monkfish Any of 10–12 species (genus Squatina, family Squatinidae) of sharks having a flattened head and body, with winglike pectoral and pelvic fins that make them resemble rays. The tail bears two dorsal fins, and behind each eye is a prominent spiracle. with fava succotash and in desserts like blackberry creme brulee or a cooling key-lime tart. Eat here once and you become a lifelong lover of Deborah's food. 43 Carmine carmine /car·mine/ (kahr´min) a red coloring matter used as a histologic stain. indigo carmine indigotindisulfonate sodium. car·mine n. St., New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; 212-242-2606; Tuesday-Sunday, 11-11. |
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