Every year at the New York City
Wine & Food Festival, a champion
is crowned in the heated
Burger Bash competition, but the
real winner is Pat LaFrieda: The
New Yorker provides all the meat
for the event, and he keeps some
of the biggest names in food—
Alex Guarnaschelli, Danny Meyer,
Michael Symon—stocked with
steaks and ground beef through
his family’s 98-year-old company,
Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors.
Although Pat’s not a chef, he’s an
expert butcher and has spent tons
of time in professional kitchens,
so he knew just what he wanted
in his own home. Most important:
creating a space where his kids,
Patrick, 11, and Giuliana, 9,
can cook safely. To make sure
Giuliana is able to prep dishes
on her own, Pat and his wife,
Jennifer, installed their Gaggenau
microwave and warming
drawers at knee-height. And they
added an induction cooktop: It
doesn’t produce an open flame,
and once it’s turned off the whole
surface cools down in seconds.
Check out the rest of Pat’s smart
kitchen ideas.
Star
Kitchen
Pat LaFrieda, meat
purveyor to the stars,
shows us around his
Bronx kitchen.
Shades of gray
Pat and Jennifer painted
the whole kitchen white
at first, but it looked too
bright, so they repainted
in a warm gray that
echoes the veins in the
marble counters.28 FOOD NETWORK MAGAZINE ●MARCH 2020
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