Maize and Blue(berry) Pancakes at the Coffee Company
Special Saturday morning pancake pop-up
Julia Child once said, “Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.”
Drama and pancakes will indeed come together next Saturday morning at a special one-time pancake pop-up that Cornman Farms chef and managing partner Kieron Hales will be doing at the Coffee Company over on Plaza Drive.
Pancakes, it turns out, are beyond popular! Last Saturday morning, people were lining up at the Coffee Company while Kieron cooked bacon and cheddar pancakes. With five to the stack and a bunch of butter and maple syrup on the side, it’s hard to convey the excited look in the eyes of most of the folks eating them! This coming Saturday, Kieron is coming back, and he’ll be making some super-special Maize and Blue(berry) pancakes.
W.C. Fields reportedly once joked, “The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.” Kieron will be turning these pancakes himself, and, being one of the hardest-working people I know, he’s definitely not lazy. He is, though, putting a bit of popcorn into the pancake mix, but in a far tastier way than W.C. Fields joked about. The blue in the Maize and Blue(berry) pancakes comes from Kieron’s homemade blueberry jam, which is mixed into the batter. Maize comes from a special popcorn he made, glazed with caramel, and then dehydrated to make a sweet/savory “corn powder” that gets sprinkled over the tops of the pancakes. Kieron told me, like, five times in five minutes, how delicious these are! Swing by and find out for yourself—supplies are limited and when we’re out of batter, we’re out!
This all reminds me of “The Pancake Supper,” Donald Antrim’s Christmas-week, 1999, essay in The New Yorker. Antrim writes, “The pancake is a childish pleasure, smothered in syrup. … We eat pancakes to escape loneliness.” Saturday morning will be your chance. Less loneliness, great pleasure, more loveliness, and a wonderful fall weekend ritual in the making!
