Nancy Leson , the well-informed restaurant critic of The Seattle Times ; Dan Barber , the chef at Blue Hill in Greenwich Village and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills in Westchester County , north of New York City ; my wife , Betsey ; and I worked our way happily through plates of spicy boar sausage , coppa -LRB- a rough-cut sausage made from the collar of the pig -RRB- , lamb prosciutto -LRB- not my favorite -RRB- , cotechino sausage with exceptional Washington state lentils and an ambrosial family-style white bean and escarole soup .