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The Inn at Little Washington relocated temporarily to New York City recently to create a benefit dinner for the James Beard Foundation in honor of the late cooking teacher and author James Beard’s 90th birthday.
The event took place at Beard’s home in Greenwich Village which has nqw become a culinary center and shrine through the efforts of noted chef and cookbook author Julia Child and other friends of James Beard.
The dinner’s theme, “Spring Fever in a Country Kitchen,” involved hauling as much of Rappahannock County to New York as could fit into a rented moving van, according to chef and owner Patrick O’Connell.
Inn staff members Tom Petot, David Shannon, Bob Fasce, Barb Wilbur, Amy Dencler, Jeff Waite and Matt Trottier and proprietors O’Connell and Reinhardt Lynch made the journey. They brought a bounty of local products, including the season’s first fresh asparagus from Butch Eastham and Marta Irmen’s garden, and country ham from Tom’s Meat Market in Culpeper.
The Sperryville Emporium loaned its famous apple for a visit to its city cousin, the Big Apple. That display from the Little Apple attracted a crowd of curiosity-seekers outside the event.
George Washington’s portrait and other props were generously loaned by Arthur and Peggy Smith of the Sperryville Antique Market.
Local master cabinet maker Ed Luebke crafted miniature replicas of the Washington monument for each table as well as two fivef
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