Get Your Game On | Pre-pétanque appetizers included delicious olive-, anchovy-, and onion-studded pissaladière.
Get Your Game On | roasted peppers with stracciatella cheese.
Get Your Game | On Watching from the sidelines were future players Manon and Chloe Farel (foreground, in white dresses) and Jean-Baptiste and Isabelle Riffaud, Sebastian Mir, and Chloe Vongerichten (back row, left to right).
Get Your Game On | The boules began rolling, with Bakhoum’s Parisian husband, Pascal Riffaud, proving to be quite the polished player.
Get Your Game On | The boules began rolling.
Bountiful Beauty | As guests arrived, they headed to the pergola for Ricard, rosé, and appetizers, including asparagus spears with jalapeño yogurt dip.
Bountiful Beauty | An afternoon lunch given by Karine Bakhoum in honor of her friend Jean-Georges Vongerichten at her home in Southampton.
Alfresco Affair | Luncheon guests toasted Vongerichten and Bakhoum with glasses of crisp summery rosé.
Bountiful Beauty | A glorious fruit and cheese platter.
Alfresco Affair | The boules began rolling.
Bountiful Beauty | As guests arrived, they headed to the pergola for Ricard, rosé, and appetizers, including asparagus spears with jalapeño yogurt dip (opposite middle), before taking their places at the table after a few competitive rounds of pétanque.
Alfresco Affair | The main course was grilled shrimp accompanied by a sauce made from preserved lemons, saffron, and cilantro and Bakhoum’s “special rice”.
Alfresco Affair | Waiter Dylan Jurow, who also works at the Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue (proprietors Christian and Elaine Mir were among the day’s guests), brought plates of appetizers out to the pergola.
What better time than Bastille Day for entertaining your French friends with an alfresco afternoon feast? Karine Bakhoum, food-industry p.r. guru and a frequent Iron Chef judge, did just that for chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, down to the pissaladière and pétanque
