Blog: Turntable Kitchen

Musical Pairings: Menomena – Mines (paired w/ poached salmon salad with horseradish dressing)

Musical Pairings: Menomena – Mines (paired w/ poached salmon salad with horseradish dressing) When I tried the delicious poached salmon salad with horseradish dressing that Kasey is featuring today, I knew this recipe had to pair with a band from the Pacific Northwest. This salad is fresh, it is big, and it is bold.  And all of those adjectives apply equally to the 4th LP from Portland-based trio Menomena : Mines .   But then, Mines is an album that can be described with a string of superlatives and adjectives that imply intricacy and largeness in scale - beautiful, vast, dense, complex and grand - for example.  Nonetheless, although each [...]
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