To honor land artist Jim Denevan, a very special dinner open to the public celebrating the agricultural program, Outstanding in the Field, will take place in a “roving restaurant” in or very near the area where the meal’s ingredients were harvested in locations that produce celebrated ingredients via sustainable farming and husbandry methods.
Since 1999, a long table is set at farms, beaches, vineyards, mountaintops, fishing docks, city streets, and other sites to accommodate the large number of participants. The aim is to reconnect diners to the land, while celebrating the hardworking hands that feed us.
To enhance the dining experience, Denevan’s extraordinary large-scale works are etched into the ground using a rake and shovel and also created without the aid of any measurement tools. They have been featured at exhibitions and installations at the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, MoMA/PS1, and Desert X AlUla.
At the first of the two-part series, Guest Chef Silvia Barban will prepare a special meal at the Brooklyn Grange, the rooftop garden of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This experience will take place on Monday, September 1st at 3pm at the Brooklyn Grange, NYC.
The second experience will take place on September 4th on Governors Island in association with the Billion Oyster Project, an organization that engages local youth to help restore New York Harbor’s lost oyster reefs. The guest chef will be Rafiq Salim of Rolo’s.
A unique group of people will gather in these places for a few moments to share the most universal of human experiences: a meal. For tickets and information on past and future events in the USA and to participate in the New York City or other regional’s events please click: https://shop.outstandinginthefield.com/collections/2025-tour
Manos Angelakis was one of the founders, the former Managing Editor for 25 years, the former Managing Editor Emeritus, and former Senior Food & Wine Writer of LuxuryWeb Magazine. He passed away in 2025 as an accomplished travel writer, photographer, and food and wine critic based in Hackensack, New Jersey. As a travel writer, he wrote extensively about numerous cities and countries. Manos was also certified as a Tuscan Wine Master and traveled to wine-producing areas in order to evaluate firsthand the product of top-rated vineyards. His articles in other publications include Vision Times and Epoch Times.
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