A Girl and Her Greens | April Bloomfield | Chefs at Google

April Bloomfield demonstrates smashed peas and roasted carrots | Food at Google

Zagat Guest Chef April Bloomfield demos how to make a couple of recipes from her new book A Girl and Her Greens - smashed peas on toast and roasted carrots with carrot top pesto.

A native of Birmingham, England, Chef Bloomfield has spent most of her life in the kitchen. In 2004, she moved to NYC following stints in restaurants such as London’s The River Café and Berkeley’s Chez Panisse. There she and restaurateur Ken Friedman opened NYC’s first gastropub, The Spotted Pig followed by The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, both of which went on to earn Michelin stars. She won the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York City and was nominated for an Emmy for cohosting the second season of the PBS show Mind of a Chef. Last year she and Ken bought San Francisco’s legendary Tosca Cafe and reopened it to widespread acclaim. Her new book, A Girl and Her Greens, is the follow up to 2012’s A Girl and Her Pig.

[HappyFluegel]

I love April's food, hat so smile at "we make it lite by adding some olive oil" proceeds to at in lemon juice :-)

[jonathanpeaker]

She said olive oil twice and she meant lemon...what were you sniffing the night before April?

[terrapin]

Mushy peas and mint sauce.  English food is wretch!

[fluerii]

She wiped her nose three times with her hand ..then proceeds handling food -whilst being filmed ..wow!!!!..can imagine what her hygeine standards are like in a closed kitchen...michelin chef!LMAO