Orson Salicetti is a Venezuelan mixologist based in New York City. In this video (produced and directed by ChezJJP during the StarChefs days), Orson uses the professional bar blender from Vita-Mix to make a pretty cool cocktail in several stages using mezcal and watermelon. It's quite an interesting application of a blender—which you never see in proper cocktail bars—in a pretty contemporary drink recipe. Read more about Orson here.
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Here's a little $120 suckling pig from Los Paisanos butcher on Brooklyn's Smith Street in Cobble Hill. It was brined, stuffed with apples and clove-studded onions and then barbecued for 5 hours over cherry wood and hardwood charcoal. Continuous basting of reduced NY State apple cider.