The scene was a freakish one at RedFarm the
other night. The tiny modern Chinese restaurant, which opened a few
weeks ago in Manhattan, was a veritable who's who of the food media.
Rachael Ray was at a table next to mine; Top Chef's Gail Simmons was sitting next to me with RestaurantGirl.com's Danyelle Freeman; Ace of Cakes
star Duff Goldman was a couple of tables away. And circulating freely
about the room, making small talk and working the crowd, was neither
the chef, the brilliant Joe Ng, nor the owner, Jeffrey Chodorow, but
instead a portly, bespectacled Chinese-food nerd named Ed "Eddie
Glasses" Schoenfeld, who had put the restaurant concept together. Ng,
who lets his cooking do the talking, is essentially a silent partner.
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