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“Back Forty”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	New American	East Village	Moderate	Good

her cone without issue. Instead, we saved room for a slice of apple pie ($7), which was served with a candle in it for my mom. As soon as my mom made a wish, the three of us moved in on that poor little slice of pie. It had no idea what was coming.

We demolished that slice of pie, and I warn you that you will too. I recommend that you order your own slice. Do not share. This pie is the recipe of Peter’s wife Susan Rosenfeld, and it is a recipe I have been trying to persuade Peter to share with me for several weeks now. He’s not giving it up. And I guess I don’t blame him. It’s fantastic—filled up with luscious sweet and tart apples—and it looks as though it was just pulled off of a sill with its perfectly flaky sugared crust, hand-pinched at the edges. Let the vanilla ice cream melt a bit, and you’ll have a perfect sauce for your pie. If I lived in the late 1800s, I imagine that I’d have picked the apples for that pie, lugged them home in heaving baskets, then spent days peeling and slicing and baking, before the pies emerged bubbly and sweet from a pot belly stove. Yes, there’s something rewarding about the old fashioned simplicity of farm-to-table lifestyle, but I guess it’s also nice to have it served up to you without lifting a finger. Oh, and you can open your eyes now.

Back Forty is located at 190 Avenue B, between 11th and 12th Streets, 212-388-1990.

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Posted: November 26, 2007

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