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More than half of universities are not on track to meet their emissions targets
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Universities are increasingly recognising that they have a responsibility to set the climate agenda – but investments and banking decisions lag behind.
The world's premier climate carnival, COP26, passed through Glasgow last month. After 25 previous instalments, and 25 total failures to halt runaway climate change, few were under any illusions about what the likely outcome would be. Nonetheless, the eyes of the world turned to the UK and to Glasgow, hoping against hope for meaningful climate action to be agreed upon.
The outcome reflected nothing of the sort. Representatives came from around the world to make their case, including communities on the front-line of climate impacts. But when they arrived, they found that they were outnumbered by representatives from the fossil fuel industry, who had the largest delegation of all, larger than any single country.
Given this, it was guaranteed from the start that the final agreement would make no meaningful commitment to phase out fossil fuels. And indeed it didn't. World leaders failed the global community once again, so it's time for civil society leaders to accept their responsibility to take the reins, set the agenda, and commit to meaningful climate action themselves.
Universities have a substantial role to play in this respect. Our universities are some of our most valued public institutions. They are respected centres of research and teaching, including on climate science, and have significant cultural influence. They should be setting the climate agenda where governments are failing.
How are universities doing?
However, with every university claiming to be sustainable, it's not always easy to assess whether they are really taking the action required. It's vital that students set the agenda, and determine what sustainability best practice should look like in their institutions.
That's what the newly released 2021 People & Planet University League does – ranks universities against robust sustainability and ethics criteria. It assesses, in other words, whether they are actually taking action that lives up to their promises to be climate leaders.
And the results show that universities are very slowly progressing in that direction in some areas of their work.
Of the 154 universities ranked in the league, 92 have now made a public commitment to screen out all fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios. UK universities can legitimately claim to be leading the pack on this front, with the UK higher education sector making up an incredible 42% of global educational institution divestment commitments. The remaining UK universities without such commitments are scrambling to catch up.
Even more encouragingly, universities are now much better at actually enshrining their divestment commitments in policy. Back in 2019, only a third of universities who had publicly committed to divest had actually implemented the requisite policy. Now, that number stands at 82%. The sector has been excellent at developing ethical investment policies, usually in collaboration with students who have been pushing this issue forward.
Why investments
Investments are far from the only criteria against which universities are judged in the People & Planet University League. But they have become one of the most salient to student campaigners over the last few years because of the very simple maxim: "if it's wrong to wreck the planet, then it's wrong to profit from the wreckage." It's bad enough that universities are fuelling the climate crisis, but it is truly unconscionable that many continue to actively profit from and fund their activities most harmful to it: those carried out by the fossil fuel industry.
The moral case is crystal clear. We know that the fossil fuel industry is more responsible than any other for the climate crisis. Despite knowing that there can be no new oil and gas projects if we are to have a chance of keeping global warming below 1.5C, they continue to extract and push forward with new ones. Their continued profitability and success will cost us the earth; universities should instead be betting on a liveable future for all.
Given that it is an important issue to students, and that it makes sense both ethically and financially, it's quite shocking that 40% of the university sector still invests in the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuel divestment is a common-sense decision for universities, and those who haven't yet made a commitment are getting rapidly left behind.
Other criteria that make up the final rankings of the People & Planet University League include education, energy sources, workers' rights, and water reduction. Manchester Metropolitan University came out top, with the University of Durham putting in a strong performance as most improved.
However, more than half of UK universities are still not yet on track to meet the sector-wide emissions reductions target set by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The deadline is next year, and unless something drastic changes, this will be a moment of deep shame for the sector. Furthermore, fewer than one in twenty universities have an ethical banking policy, despite long running student demands for this to be implemented.
Indeed, if universities have made a commitment to exclude fossil fuel companies from their investments, they should also be working to exclude banks who fund the industry and its fossil fuel extraction projects too.
It is time for universities to meaningfully break all links with the fossil fuel industry, and take their climate responsibilities seriously. These links are deep and varied: for example, there is not a single UK university that bars the oil, gas, or mining industry from accessing recruitment services at present – though Fossil Free Careers, the student campaign launched this year, may see this change soon.
The 2021 People & Planet University League shows that a step change in university policy is desperately needed. We look forward to witnessing that change in 2022.
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Andrew Connolly says:
Dec 16 2021 at 9:22 am
Just for the record, Exeter University Council decided to fully divest from all fossil fuel production/extraction in 2019, not just tar sands and coal as the people and green planet website states. We did this at the same time as declaring a climate and environmental emergency. The policy was then implemented within 4 weeks.


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Hermann Boeschenstein (May 1, 1900 – September 21, 1982) was a Swiss-Canadian scholar of German studies and author of several novels. After his youth in Stein am Rhein and Schaffhausen, he studied in Germany and obtained a PhD in philosophy in 1926. He travelled in Europe and Canada, settling in Toronto in 1928, where he taught German and German literature at the University of Toronto from 1930 to 1968. From 1943 to 1946, he took a leave of absence to serve as Director for Canada of the War Prisoner's Aid of the YMCA, travelling to the Canadian internment camps for German prisoners of war and overseeing work to help them re-integrate into postwar society. In 1956, Boeschenstein became the Head of the German department at Toronto.

Besides his scholarly work that included eleven monographs about German culture and literature, he wrote short stories and novels with some autobiographic elements, many of them concerned with migration. Two novels were published during his lifetime, the 1921 expressionist  and the 1977  about a Swiss emigrant couple's return home. Two further novels about migration and a monograph about German literature were published posthumously from Boeschenstein's manuscripts.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German awards a Hermann Boeschenstein medal in his memory.

Early life

Boeschenstein was born in the Swiss town of Stein am Rhein, the son of Hermann Böschenstein, a merchant, and his wife Katharina, . After elementary school and Realschule in Stein, he moved to Schaffhausen to attend the Gymnasium. In 1917, he became a member of the local fraternity . He graduated with the  in 1919. He went to Zürich and then to Munich, where he enrolled in an acting school. After volunteering as a medical orderly for the Polish Army in 1920, Boeschenstein studied German literature, philosophy, archaeology, and history at the universities of Berlin, Kiel, Königsberg, and finally the University of Rostock, where he obtained a PhD in 1924, with a thesis on the aesthetics of Swiss philosopher Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, supervised by Emil Utitz. After his military service in the Swiss infantry, he travelled around Europe, spending time in Admont, Austria as well as Naples and Paris. From Paris, he travelled to Canada, where he worked various odd jobs including lumberman and janitor. During this 1926–1928 "vagabond" period, he also worked as a doorman in Victoria, British Columbia. Some of his experiences from this time later featured in his autobiographic collection of short stories and anecdotes  (Among Swiss in Canada). He returned to Switzerland in 1928 to marry Elisabeth Schoch (1901–1976); they then moved to Toronto together in August 1928. In Toronto, Boeschenstein at first made a living with various odd jobs, for example laying floor at the Royal York Hotel before finding steady employment in the spring of 1930 as a laboratory assistant at the University of Toronto's Banting Institute, where he had to take care of the animals. In the fall of 1930, he additionally started teaching technical German at the Banting Institute and later at the Chemistry department.

Academic career
In Toronto, Boeschenstein also started to study philosophy with George Sidney Brett. A chance encounter with George H. Needler from the German department led to his appointment as Lecturer in German conversation at the University of Toronto in 1932, starting his academic career. In 1943, he took a leave of absence and worked for the YMCA's War Prisoner's Aid until 1947. After his return, he was promoted to full professor and eventually became Head of Department in 1956, succeeding Barker Fairley. His retirement is given in various sources as happening in 1967, 1968,  or 1972. In the 1970s, Boeschenstein also had appointments at McGill University and the University of Waterloo that ended with his final retirement in 1976.

Work with prisoners of war
When World War II started in 1939, Boeschenstein was briefly arrested in his Toronto home on suspicion of being German and hence an enemy of Canada, but released on the same day after explaining he came from neutral Switzerland.
In 1943, Boeschenstein was approached by Jerome Davis to join the Canadian committee of the War Prisoner's Aid of the YMCA, and he started full time work on this in May 1943 and was responsible for all POW related activities from July 1943. He travelled to the 26 internment camps and work detachments spread out all over Canada, helping prisoners by providing literature and with issues like contacting family or dealing with officials. The YMCA supplied sporting equipment, musical instruments, books and other items to the prisoners. The prisoners put up theatrical and musical performances that Boeschenstein attended. An important aim of the program was to help reintegrate the prisoners into post-war society. He kept in contact with dozens of POWs after the war, and was the guest of honour at a 1980 reunion.

Scholarly work
A 1979 bibliography of Boeschenstein's works lists eleven scholarly books in German and English as well as 37 articles. Boeschenstein's major books are two volumes on  (German emotional culture) from 1954 and 1966. He also wrote books about Hermann Stehr, Jeremias Gotthelf and Gottfried Keller. During his time working with prisoners of war, he read a large amount of wartime German novels and produced the report The German Novel, 1939–1944. Later in life, he wrote a book on 19th-century German literature in which Paul Heyse's works are described as "dangerously perfect in style and structure." Boeschenstein edited a volume of German-Canadian humour that included the Joe Klotzkopp letters of John Adam Rittinger. He also translated two scholarly monographs by Barker Fairley from English into German, one about Goethe and one about Wilhelm Raabe.

After Boeschenstein's death, Rodney Symington edited two volumes of his essays in 1986 and published Boeschenstein's A History of Modern German Literature in 1990.

Fiction

Boeschenstein published two novels during his lifetime,  (The Mother and the Neutral Son) in 1921 and  (In the Red Oxen: Story of a Return Home) in 1977. In both novels, the female protagonist is based on his wife Elisabeth. The 1921 novel, a parody of an expressionist novel, contains stylistic experiments and dadaist prose. The author later called the novel a , a youthful mistake.

His second novel, written after his retirement, is about an emigrant couple's return to his Swiss home town, Stein am Rhein, where the titular  is a real inn. In the novel, the main character, a proxy for Boeschenstein, writes a novel about a pre-World War I airplane and pilot. This novel in the novel, called  (Lighter-than-air) has been described as the best part of the book, with the main character described as "rather colorless".

Between these two novels, Boeschenstein published a collection of stories and anecdotes , with autobiographical content from the years 1926 to about 1947. Boeschenstein also translated from English and French. His collection  of poetry in his own translation is one of the earliest anthologies of Canadian poetry to be published outside of Canada.

In the 1980s, Boeschenstein was also working on several dramas as well as a humorous novel about the lack of women's suffrage in Switzerland. After his death, two more novels concerned with migration were published:  (1992) and  (2004).

Students
One of Boeschenstein's PhD students was Robert Ludwig Kahn (1950, Kotzebue, His Social and Political Attitudes. The Dilemma of a Popular Dramatist in Times of Social Change), who later became Chairman of the Department of Germanics at Rice University. After Kahn's 1970 suicide, Boeschenstein contributed an article about his own advisor Emil Utitz to the memorial volume. Other students include Klaus Bongart (1968/69, The Political and Social Problems in the Prose Works of Heinrich Zschokke), Margaret Mian (1970/71, Hermann Broch's Views on Art, Literature and Language), Joseph L. Vida, (1970/71, The Hungarian Image in Nineteenth Century German Literature), and Kari Grimstad (1972/73, Karl Kraus as a Literary Critic).

Personal life
Boeschenstein met his future wife Elisabeth (called Lili) Schoch during his time in Schaffhausen. They moved to Toronto after their 1928 marriage and had four children: Frank (born in 1929), Gertrude, Tom, and Bill. On summer weekends, they were often guests of George Needler's family on his Lake of Bays property, where Boeschenstein relaxed by cutting grass or painting landscapes. The family later bought Needler's Toronto house, which was close to the university. After his wife's 1976 death, Boeschenstein decided to spend the rest of his life writing fiction. He died of lung cancer in Toronto on September 21, 1982.

Awards and legacy
Boeschenstein received an honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston in 1968 as well as many other awards and prizes. He was a Member of the Royal Society of Canada.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German occasionally awards the Hermann Boeschenstein medal to "a person – normally a Germanist at a Canadian university – who has made exceptional contributions, in the humanitarian spirit of Hermann Boeschenstein, to the welfare of our Association and to the advancement of our discipline in Canada."

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Scholarly works and editions

Literary works and translations

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1900 births
1982 deaths
Germanists
Swiss emigrants to Canada
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
People from the canton of Schaffhausen
University of Rostock alumni
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RECORD-BREAKING ANNIVERSARY FOR FÈIS THIRIODH 2015
As the last notes of the final strip-the-willow echoed out over the Crossapol shore, exhausted Fèis Thiriodh committee members looked back over a packed and successful festival that celebrates the island's music and culture.
2015 was the 25th year of the Fèis and the anniversary was celebrated in some style. The week started with a lovely joint service at Heylipol Church, where singers Linda MacLeod from Uist and Iona Brown were aided by some little people on paper musical instruments. Monday saw the 25th Anniversary Concert and 220 people packed the hall to hear some of the island's most famous musical stars. Angus MacPhail from Skipinnish, Daniel and Martin Gillespie of Skerryvore and Campbell Brown from Gunna Sound had taken the time to come over and support the Fèis. They were joined by this year's tutors and other past tutors, including Arthur Cormack from Fèisean nan Gàidheal and Donald Black, who waved one hand with great enthusiasm to arouse the audience while playing the mouth organ with the other. Founder member Flora MacPhail, whose newly written theme song for the Fèis became an instant hit, was particularly thanked, along with Joyce MacInnes and John Holliday for their tireless work promoting music on the island.
The next evening Ian Smith presented the results of his year's research into the island's past prolific whisky production, before unveiling a plan to look into setting up a micro-distillery on Tiree in the future. The children's dance was sold out with 200 jigging and reeling to Eilidh MacFadyen's band. The first 'game' took so long because of the number of competitors that it became the last game too! The 'Muse Cruise' to Barra attracted 108 music lovers. The six-hour session and sing-along was only interrupted by a strip-the-willow on Castlebay pier, complete with a number of canoeists still in their wetsuits and lifejackets! The dancers and pipers of Fèis Bharraigh gave the ferry a send-off to remember with a Highland dance perilously close to the pier edge followed by a blast from the ship's horn and a lone Tiree piper on the ship's aft deck. Trail West rounded off the week with a dance described by Ian Smith as "brilliant".
Numbers at the classes were up again with 61 at the main Fèis, 33 at Fèis Bheag and 40 at Fèis Bheag Bheag for the under-5s. This was back to the levels last seen during the golden days of the Fèis in the 1990s. The Tiree Fèis has had its low points over the past 25 years. When the Hall closed its doors for a year the Fèis also closed and a party of children went up to the Uist Fèis instead. When the school closed for maintenance for several years classes were held in An Talla and in nearby caravans. Numbers attending went down so much that some committee members felt the Fèis had had its day.
Tutors this year were Andrew Findlater (drums), Alain Campbell (guitar), Ian Smith & Gordon Connell (accordion), Scott Wood (pipes), Jamie MacDonald (fiddle), Linda MacLeod (singing), Doc Holliday (flute and whistle), Eleanor Sinclair (dancing), Iain MacKinnon (Gaelic conversation), John Angus MacKinnon (film making), Artair Donald (drama), with Iona Brown, Tara Rankin and Eilidh MacFadyen (Fèis Bheag).
The committee, under the leadership of chair Eilidh Campbell and vice-chair Sheila MacKinnon declared themselves delighted with how the festival had gone, before going off for a well-earned sleep. Committee member Dr John Holliday told An Tirisdeach, "This has been the best-ever Fèis Thiriodh. It has roared back to life for its 25th anniversary, and the enthusiasm for Gaelic and the island's culture is very encouraging. It was remarkable how youthful and vibrant the tutors were this year, how many of them are fluent and proud Gaelic speakers, and how many have come through the ranks of the Fèis itself. Tiree, truly Scotland's musical island, is lucky to have them, and I hope they will see and enjoy the 50th anniversary of Fèis Thiriodh as much as we have enjoyed the 25th."
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Leafy spurge grows on the banks of the Yampa River.
As citizens of Colorado we have a responsibility to manage noxious weeds as designated under the 2003 Colorado Noxious Weed Act, Title 35, Article 5.5. The law states that it is the duty of all persons to use integrated methods to manage noxious weeds if the same are likely to be materially damaging to the land of neighboring landowners.
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What time did Mad TV come on?
It debuted on October 14, 1995, airing on Fox at 11 p.m. on Saturday nights, directly across the dial, and country, from Saturday Night Live, which was at the time suffering one of its worst-ever slumps.
Why did Mad TV Get Cancelled?
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released The Complete First Season of Mad TV in 2004. However, due to poor sales, the release of the second season was cancelled (despite a preview for it in the first season DVD).
Is Mad TV coming back?
Adding to the growing list of revivals and reboots, The CW has announced that it will be bringing back the popular sketch comedy show, 'MAD TV', to primetime. The CW has picked up eight hour-long episodes of the show which will feature both original and new cast members. …
What network is Mad TV on?
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Who plays Karen on crazy ex girlfriend?
Stephnie Carmel Weir
Stephnie Carmel Weir (born 28 November 1967) is an American actress, comedian, and writer….Television.
What ever happened to Mad TV?
Fox is closing the book on "Mad TV" after 14 seasons. Net confirmed Wednesday that the Saturday night sketch series, which had barely escaped cancellation in recent years, will end its run at the end of this season. Fox told Salzman the decision to ax the show was an economic one.
What happened to the show Mad?
instead of the usual animation style that Warner Bros. Animation is known for. The series premiered on the evening of September 6, 2010 on Cartoon Network. The series ended its 3-year run on December 2, 2013.
When was the last MADtv episode?
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Is Mad like Robot Chicken?
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What happened to Karen in crazy ex-girlfriend?
She is currently on leave from the firm doing foot and hand modeling. Her first appearance was in Season One episode "Josh and I Are Good People!". She is portrayed by actress/comedian Stephnie Weir.
Who was the blonde girl on Mad TV?
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Who plays Karen on crazy ex-girlfriend?
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Wyoming's low rig count worries policymakers
June 23, 2011 by Dustin Bleizeffer 2 Comments
Wyoming's low rig count worries policymakers
During a 2-day hearing this week, a legislative committee both admonished the perpetual string of administrative challenges in the National Environmental Protection Act process, and it promised to pen a letter asking the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to, well, delay its Bighorn Basin Resource Management Plan revision (which has been under public review for more than 2 years now).
Why? Because the plan didn't include consideration of new pipeline construction to accommodate carbon dioxide deliveries for future enhanced oil recovery operations.
Richard Garrett, legislative and outreach advocate for the Wyoming Outdoor Council, said his group prefers CO2 injections for EOR as opposed to greenfield development. Yet, said Garrett, the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development interim committee's "eleventh-hour" request for an extension sends the message that delays are OK on behalf of energy development, but not for wild lands, water quality, air quality, wildlife and human health concerns.
"They're making a mistake that natural resources, wildlife and tourism don't figure on equal footing with energy development," said Garrett. "The recreation and tourism resources are a 365-days a year supply, and the oil resource is only a 2-day supply for the country." (Click here for PDF of oil reserve estimate.)
Wyoming is enjoying a wealth of revenue from minerals, recording a $15.5 billion mineral valuation in 2010 — the state's second highest mineral valuation ever. Companies are producing Wyoming oil, natural gas, coal and uranium all at near record levels.
At the same time, nationwide drilling activity has returned to pre-recession levels — now at 1,860, according to Baker Hughes' rig report. That compares to a recent low of 875 rigs in June 2009.
But not much of the drilling recovery has occurred in Wyoming. In fact, oil and gas folks say it's difficult to coax a rig to Wyoming from North Dakota, Pennsylvania or Oklahoma. There are just 44 active rigs in Wyoming right now, despite a supposed oil exploration rush in the Niobrara, and despite the fact that Wyoming remains the nation's second largest supplier of domestic natural gas.
Oil and gas officials are telling Wyoming leaders it's because a large portion of Wyoming's minerals are on public lands, and federal agencies are imposing increasingly stringent regulations, especially in the areas of air quality, water quality and wildlife.
EnCana Oil & Gas USA, the primary operator in the Jonah gas field, conducted its own analysis of some 23 environmental impact statements (EISs) in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The company discovered the average cycle time for an EIS has gone from 3.4 years in the 1990s to an average 5.8 years by 2005, according to EnCana government affairs director Paul Ulrich.
"It's an expensive, time-consuming process," Ulrich said in his testimony before the minerals committee earlier this week.
Having led the Rockies' natural gas boom during the past decade, Wyoming policymakers get extremely nervous when rigs are busy drilling outside the Cowboy State.
"Some would say it's not a big deal if we don't develop our resources now because they'll still be there for later," said committee chairman Sen. Eli Bebout, R-Riverton. "The problem is … once that exodus occurs it's so hard to get them back."
Currently, there are some 21,000 natural gas wells in the federal permitting analysis stage in Wyoming, and most of the EISs have been delayed for months — some even for years. Ulrich testified that each year one of these EISs is delayed, it defers about $157 million in tax revenue to the state.
Ulrich admitted one EIS delay was due to the fact that EnCana changed plans after initiating the EIS process, saying, "We quadrupled the size of (drilling) we were looking at."
But, Ulrich testified, in most cases it's environmental groups and individuals who are filing administrative appeals and challenges that hold up the permitting process.
To say members of the mineral committee are enthusiastic to unleash those drilling plans is an understatement. But the committee's response left some of industry's critics scratching their heads.
A handful of committee members concluded that one strategy to battling seemingly unwarranted oil and gas permit delays might be to teach Wyoming K-12 students the "importance of energy" development to Wyoming. The students would then go home and tell their parents about how royalties and tax revenues help fund Wyoming schools and prevent the state from having to impose an income tax, said one lawmaker.
Others suggested that if state-level agencies spoke with one voice — a doctrine of the Gov. Jim Geringer administration — it should help to speed up federal permitting.
After the hearing, Garrett said the make-up of the minerals committee is notably pro-energy. Chairman Bebout has been involved in several energy-based ventures and is a longtime advocate oil, gas and uranium. Co-chairman Rep. Tom Lockhart, R-Casper, is a former utility executive and is finishing out a term on the board of Arch Coal Inc.
"Members of the minerals committee will tell you their responsibility is to facilitate development in Wyoming, and they don't really have a lot of responsibility for things that look like impedes development," said Garrett. "I came away from the meeting with a feeling that we have enormous environmental challenges because there is a rush for development."
— Contact Dustin Bleizeffer at 307-577-6069 or [email protected]
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Dustin Bleizeffer has worked as a coal miner, an oilfield mechanic, and for 20 years as a statewide reporter and editor primarily covering the energy industry in Wyoming. Most recently he was Communications Director at the Wyoming Outdoor Council, a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, and WyoFile editor-in-chief. He lives in Casper. You can reach him at (307) 267-3327, dustinblei[email protected] or follow him on Twitter @DBleizeffer.


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Written by Laura Hayes
| Published on April 1, 2016
Like a team captain after a big win, Aaron Silverman is quick to give his teammates shared credit. The chef/owner behind Rose's Luxury—and Pineapple & Pearls, set to debut April 7—says everything under his new restaurant's roof is a collaborative effort. The all-inclusive tasting menu ($250 per person for food, drinks, tax and tip) showcases several dishes from chefs who aren't named Silverman, two of whom he's particularly jazzed about.
White-asparagus okonomiyaki. Photographs by Evy Mages
"Scott [Muns], our head chef, has a smoked beef rib dish," Silverman says. "He's excellent at Mexican cuisine, so it's a smoked beef rib with an intricate mole and nixtamalized grits." Washington Post writer Tim Carman, who makes no secret of his love for barbecue, inspired the dish. Another plate Silverman is quick to show off: white-asparagus okonomiyaki from sous chef Jonny Black. A tender asparagus spear coated with mushroom duxelles and chicken mousse is rolled in a rice-flour crepe, then topped with bonito flakes for a play on the Japanese street food.
Finally, Silverman mentions a shaved-ice palate cleanser of his own creation. "It's Taiwanese-style, but it's based off of Japanese kakigōri because of the condensed milk and toppings," Silverman says. He traveled to Japan in November and brought back an appreciation for cleanliness and simplicity: "Cleanliness in terms of easily discernible flavors, colors, and textures—trying to put less and less on a dish or a drink so whatever you're doing will be a clean expression. And that applies to design too."
The dining room at Pineapple & Pearls.
Indeed, the dining room, with its black and white color palette, isn't over-worked or distracting. A large, handsome banquette brackets one side of the room, which hangs with black-and-white wall art by artist Jowita Wyszomirska. But, before you get to the dining room, you'll pass by a wooden bar with white accents that practically screams, "Serenity now!" The seven-seat bar, presided over by beverage director Jeff Faile, looks like something you'd slide into in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, where bars are small, but wallets are deep.
Faile, who joined the Pineapple & Pearls/Rose's Luxury team from Neighborhood Restaurant Group, is leaping away from the Manhattan variations he once pedaled in favor of cocktails so creative that some don't even come in a glass. Take the "oyster tower." The three-tiered "drink" arrives bearing empty oyster shells filled with wasabi-and-green-apple granita spiked with Barr Hill Gin. They may add a second flavor of granita.
A tower of oyster shells holding gin-spiked apple-and-wasabi granita.
Faile lights up when he talks about working with the kitchen: "Being able to get a nice collaborative effort between a kitchen and a bar is phenomenal. I had that at Palena with Frank Ruta and I learned so much about flavors and how they pair."
The seats at the bar are for reservations only, but the experience is different from the dining room and the chef's counter. "We want the bar to have its own appeal to it," Faile says. There, diners will eat the same tasting menu, however drinks are not included, which drops the base price down to $150. Faile's $20 "show cocktails," are available for purchase, and you can also order classics.
The bar, where Jeff Faile will serve classic and "show" cocktails.
For dining room guests, Faile will march out beverage pairings that eschew college-age myths about mixing alcohols. The progression includes Champagne, Pinot Noir, Chablis, a Belgian quadruple beer and a dessert cocktail that Faile dreamed up with pastry chef Kim Janusz. The nightcap combines Dolin Blanc vermouth, Speyside Scotch, strawberry vinegar from Lindera Farms, and the leftover juice from the compressed strawberries adorning the cheese course.
"Fennel & Absinthe."
Whether guests dine at the bar or in the dining room, payment is collected online through the reservation system. "A huge part of this concept is making fine dining really fun yet still elegant and refined," Silverman says. "That means getting rid of anything that takes away from pleasure—it sucks to pay that big bill at the end."
Silverman also wants Pineapple & Pearls to be a place of celebration. "We all work harder than we should and don't get paid enough, and that's in every profession, so this is a way to do something special and celebrate," he says. "Fine dining should really be about having a good time instead of some stuffy, formal showcase of 'chef has prepared this for you tonight.'"
Pineapple & Pearls serves dinner Tuesday through Friday. A fresh set of reservations opens up every Monday morning at 10 a.m.. A coffee shop serves sandwiches and pastries Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m..
Pineapple & Pearls, 715 8th St. SE; 202-595-7375; www.pineappleandpearls.com
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