By LARRY GETLEN
Posted: 12:00 am
October 9, 2008
Chef Adam Perry Lang is a classically trained Culinary Institute of America graduate who's cooked at Le Cirque, Daniel and the legendary Guy Savoy in Paris. But these days he's known for barbecuing entire pigs at his top-rated Daisy May's BBQ USA.
It's a Hell's Kitchen eatery (located at 46th Street and 11th Avenue) where regulars go hog wild - when they're not stuffing their faces with beef ribs, chicken and chili.
And Perry Lang - who's cooked in New Mexico and will be serving a New Mexico slider at the New York City Wine & Food Festival's Rachael Ray-hosted Burger Bash in DUMBO on Friday night - hasn't just chosen to locate his restaurant way out west in Midtown. He lives in the area, too, in a sleek, 38th-floor apartment in one of Hell's Kitchen's glassy towers.
"Everything is children-based," says Perry Lang of the "safety first" considerations that went into decorating the approximately 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom rental he shares with his French wife, Fleur, an artist, and their 4½-year-old son, Max, and 2½-year-old daughter, Noa.
"When you have kids, you gotta watch the corners. So everything is about having children and making it safe," he says. "In that respect, we like to keep things functional. That's our aesthetic."
The Perry Langs found the apartment four years ago and were immediately enticed by the expansive eastern and southern views.
"We see the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. It's most spectacular at night, when the city's all lit up," says Perry Lang. "July 4, we catch three fireworks shows. We're very popular that time of year."
The living room is simply decorated, with a beige, L-shaped couch that pulls out so that "friends and family can sleep over," and one of Fleur's colorful abstract paintings on the wall above.
"Her paintings are intensely personal," Perry Lang says. "They encapsulate my wife, so I love having them on the wall."
As for Perry Lang's personal craft, he points to a sharp kitchen knife - the only knife of its sort, it turns out, in the entire house.
"It's a Suisin Inox knife, stainless-steel," he says. "I really like to keep [just] one knife in the house because with two kids around, I can keep track of it."
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