Shaved Zucchini with Feta, Mint and Red Pepper Flakes
Anna’s Zucchini Salad
NOTES
Great for parties, can sit out without getting soggy, festive, simple, colorful.
RECIPE
DIFFICULTY
EASY
SERVES
6
PREP TIME
10 MINS
Salad
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3small zucchini
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4red radishes
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1handfulmint leaves
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1Fresno Chili Pepper
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1/2cupBarrel-Aged Sheep of Goat Feta Cheese (should come in a brine)
Dressing
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1tspmustard
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1lemon, juiced
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1tspwhite sugar
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1/3cupolive oil
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sea salt and cracked pepper to taste
Anna Karlin is native to London, but was born to inhabit her Lower East Side studio (I suspect she might be single-handedly keeping that neighborhood cool). In this sunny, 4 story walk-up, Anna designs daring furniture and fine objects, interiors, sets, digital and print, and she manages to throw some notable parties on the rooftop in her spare time. The moment I enter her space, I have the urge to burn everything I own and start over, restricting my material world to glass, ceramic, ash wood and brass (and black leather for my wardrobe).
Anna Karlin in Her Own Words
Julia: The materials you work with are very specific and deliberate. Do you approach cooking in a similar fashion?
Anna: It depends – if you are going really simple then I am an ingredient snob. You get what you pay for with meat, fish and cheese. If I am making a spice-laden curry, then anything goes. I also hate food waste so I love to reinvent leftovers. It is a British habit to re-incarnate the Sunday Roast a million different ways
Julia: How would you describe your approach to entertaining?
Anna: I like a fest, not an 80’s style Cordon Bleu dinner party. Dinner parties are all about the visual – the table needs to look better than it tastes! I do most of my entertaining in London; Manhattan apartments can be a tough place to host dinner for 15. I do occasionally design and produce events where I get to unleash my inner hostess…with a budget. I love designing the food for those occasions.
Julia: Your tables and objects look so perfect together. When you design, do you imagine food and drinks and miscellaneous household objects mingling with your pieces? Or is your ideal consumer one whose entire home is designed by you?
Anna: My personal style is eclectic and my pieces are meant to work with that. Each piece I make is a little gem, not meant to dominate your world.
Julia: I spied some prototypes for salad servers on your desk. Clearly Salad For President followers and Anna Karlin Studio customers are part of the same venn diagram. Do you think there might be a collaboration in our future?
Anna: Yes!! I am very excited about our next collection. I think a Salad for President collaboration would be most chic. I’ll have to make you a special set of the servers.
Julia: (Silent and restrained jumps for joy)