Tuesday, July 20, 2010
News Fantastic Mrs. Fox: Carrington Fox Takes Top Honors in 2010 AAN Awards
Posted by Jim Ridley on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:06 AM
- An award-winning food critic must master the art of disguise.
Last Friday in Toronto, Carrington Fox, our esteemed Bitesmistress and Scene food critic, took first-place honors in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' 2010 AAN Awards. In the circulation under 50,000 division, Carrington won the award for best food writing, nominated along with worthy contenders such as Creative Loafing Sarasota's Brian Ries and New Orleans Gambit's Ian McNulty. (To give you some idea of the honor, Carrington's counterpart in the over-50,000 category was the L.A. Weekly's awesome Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer winner.)
Here's a sample from one piece that brought her the gold:
The most stunning was the triptych of bison marrow and cardamom-braised shank. At one end of a long plate, two short fingers of tempura-fried marrow from Kentucky bison balanced on a pile of yuca tostones. Marinated in vinegar prior to being cooked, mashed and fried into silver-dollar-sized latkes, the starchy cassava root cakes were an unexpectedly bright complement to the rich, fatty marrow. At the other end of the plate, two chestnut-size cippolini onions caramelized with balsamic vinegar and butter bobbled on a pair of toast points. The crisp lengths of bread were held in place by a schmear of finely minced and vinegar-steeped caramelized onions (also available as a dip), which played bitter counterpoint to the glassy molten bulbs.
Sweet, huh? The Scene took prizes in 11 categories, including four more first-place awards. A full list can be found on the Scene's news and politics blog Pith in the Wind. Congratulations, C.
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Nice try with the disguise, Carrington, but we'd know that curvy silhouette anywhere.
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And Ridley himself won first place in Arts Criticism, but failed to mention it. But as I said on a similar Pith post moments ago, don't buy his false modesty. I share an office with him, and he makes me genuflect when I enter every morning.
i loved mr fox. is there any way we could get ths picture to replace the existing picture???? please? huh? please? GOD HOW HARD IS IT? please please
Wow - in between extolling the virtues of Shoney's and two weeks running of puff pieces (Capitol Grill, Myint) You offer us an excerpt of her Lester Bangs / Robert Christgau style of prose. w o o t... Thankfully we have Nancy V. and a select few citizen journalists who get off their ass and bring us the real food scene in this town.
Wow -- another online coward whose opinion is worthless without an identity (or a spine) to back it up.
Way to go Carrington! Well-deserved and no surprise to all of us who have read your beautifully crafted writing and reviews.
Carrington, it is always fun to read your writing and it doesn't hurt Nashville's image, either. Thanks for making the Scene always fun and informative to read.
Carrington, congratulations on a well-deserved honor. Your writings are always informative and fun to read and help me decide where to go and what to order. To have such an erudite foodie amongst us doesn't hurt Nashville's image for our visitors, either! Great work!!!
Wow, just returned to the land of connectivity to find all these good wishes. Jim Ridley, you are one sneaky and humble award-winning arts critic. Thank you, Bites Nation, for all your encouragement.
Mark Lee Taylor! Welcome to Bites -- how are you? What have you eaten that's good lately?
I just read the list of winners --- gah! The Scene cleaned up. We are the champions, and all.
