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Chang Isn’t About to Talk More Smack About San Francisco

So. David Chang’s sole response to Daniel Patterson’s ruminations about the “inexorable march” of comfort food in New York? “Ditto whatever Daniel said,” Chang writes today at the Moment. “Set, match, Patterson.” For further ruminations about the difference between the East and West Coast scenes, we’re forced to turn to Nate Appleman of Pulino’s, who tells the W Editor’s Blog: “San Francisco diners are just really food-focused. In New York, the atmosphere and the scene are just as important as the food.” He says, “Overall, the produce is much, much better [in California]. It takes a whole bunch of East Coast carrots to equal the flavor of one California carrot.” As for the whole figs-on-a-plate thing: “Yes, that’s San Francisco cooking, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a negative thing. I would put figs on a plate. I would celebrate the fig.”

Le Fooding Fights | David Chang on Daniel Patterson [T Magazine]
Five Minutes with Nate Appleman [Editor’s Blog/W]

Chang Isn’t About to Talk More Smack About San Francisco