duck egg

The dish was a study in circles: the meat pressed flat and dotted with pickled carrots, moons of sumac-dusted duck-egg aioli, microgreens, and blueberries.

Think albacore tartare with duck-egg yolk and seared sturgeon with fondant potatoes.

Located in the state’s Southern Tier close to the Pennsylvania border, it offers vistas of farmland, dotted with several big clapboard houses painted a duck-egg blue.

Firstly, the wallpaper: acres of it, in lofty-ceilinged apartments; duck-egg blue with golden lineaments, or linen hung decades ago by master craftsmen, or just an alcove lined with subtle candystripes leading down to a ripe mahogany floor.

But the artwork was ridiculed on social media and by some locals, drawing comparisons variously with a smurf, a scarecrow and the Virgin Mary, with some arguing the only resemblance between the figure and the real-life person was the depiction of the duck-egg blue woollen coat she wore at the inauguration ceremony.