I was very happy to learn a few weeks ago that Dennis Scholl was joining Knight Foundation’s permanent staff as the Miami program director, not least because he cares very much about the food and wine communities and is a wine importer (half of the Betts & Scholl powerhouse that I first read about in this Food & Wine article last January).

At lunch at Michael’s Genuine today, the fried egg on top of crumbled duck terrine and toasted bread spread liberally with homemade Dijon was a good order (it’s next to impossible to order badly here);

Dennis ordered what reminded me of a warm Andalusian gazpacho,

and we were both happy to be at this restaurant run by Michael Schwartz,

who stopped by the table and is up for the James Beard award for Best Southern Chef (the nominee list) next week (as Michael mentions, this is an example Dennis’ work with Plum TV as a culture correspondent).

Before we left, Michael confirmed when Dennis asked if he was celebrating Grilled Cheese Month (as we have here on kthread) that every month at Michael’s Genuine is Grilled Cheese Month. Fellow Miamians, rejoice! (And everyone else, come visit. More grilled cheese in just a bit…)

And while we were in the Design District, we stopped by the Wynwood gallery Dennis owns with his wife Debra, World Class Boxing, where the current Mitzi Pederson exhibit, “I Think I Was Looking at That Before” has thin, shaped wood sculptures like bows of painted silver leaf that are strung not for arrows, but hang high on walls and around blocks on the gallery floor reminding me of simplified Aeolian harps.

And in the untitled piece Pederson refers to as a “ground drawing,” cinder blocks glitter playfully as you move about them, winking back as you accept a clever invitation to circle the piece, subtly engaged in this gallery in a city of unironic sequins…

Related posts:

1. grilled cheese appreciation week: comté monday
2. transformative light in Miami
3. grilled cheese appreciation week: cheddar thursday

1. Jean Marc:
   April 30th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   I feel like I am stalking you, you have been bookmarked on the toolbar of my Mozilla Firefox… Be afraid. Be very afraid.

2. Mica:
   April 30th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

   Even the cinder blocks are prettier in Miami, or maybe it’s just the way that you capture all the eats and sights in your daily life…

3. Kristen:
   April 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

   Excellent, made the bookmark list! Not afraid :)

   Mica, the exhibit makes great use of materials I’ve never thought of as beautiful. I was amazed at how the glitter seemed to dance, as if the blocks were swaying, as I walked around the piece—

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