Chef Gabe Kennedy’s Family of Friends in Brooklyn

Hey I'm Gabe Kennedy, we're here in Brooklyn, New York,

celebrating summer with a wonderful dinner party.

We're at Banyan Studios, one of my favorite

places on the planet.

Banyan Studios is a music recording studio

and it moonlights as a space for pop ups

and cooking events that I do.

And we are going to have an incredible meal

with some of my best friends.

Andrew, Chelsea Rose, Jesse, Matti,

Devon, Nicole, Erin, who's also helping me out, and myself.

The menu is summer bounty.

Lots of colors, lots of freshness,

lots of vibrant foods and flavors.

So we have some beautiful local heirloom tomatoes,

we're gonna slice those nice and thin.

We have a very diverse cheeseboard and a few cured meats

'cause everyone likes a little cheese and meat.

The highlight of the dinner

is these gorgeous little branzinos.

So we're gonna crisp them up in the pan,

roast them in the oven with some burnt citrus.

Delectable.

We also have a granita.

I took a little bit of unsweetened tea,

lemon juice, lime juice, sweetened it up

with just a touch of honey, laid it on a pan

and then every 30 minutes, in the freezer,

we go by with a fork and scrape it and it creates

these incredibly textured, ice shards.

We're gonna finish it with some fresh herbs

that we just snipped from the window box out there.

The granita will be a perfect refresher

after this wonderful communal meal.

It feels really nice to be able to sit down,

around the table, and dive into the abundance of summer.

It's not just what you eat but it's who you eat with

and the way that we eat, can dine communally,

and the way that we can share these experiences

with one another can be very powerful and very beautiful.

♫ Heard it was the best and only remedy

♫ The fact is that you seemed to be running pretty

♫ Quenching the thirst of a community