[Updated] Edible Jake Gyllenhaal, more from Leadville and Anne Hathaway covers Vogue for LAOD

After the invitation and the glimpse in yesterday's post, today we get the official pictures from this week's charity dinner and auction for Edible Schoolyard in NYC. While providing Jake Gyllenhaal with the perfect opportunity to eat and talk food, it also gives us a good look at the Face Pet for the first time. The bear has clearly been tamed while retaining an element of feistiness. Please note how I'm not mentioning the shoes.


We hear more details and see another picture at WWD: 'Alice Waters held her second fundraising dinner for her Edible Schoolyard organization at Craft on Wednesday night, with the help of co-hosts John Lyons, Fernanda Niven, Jonathen Sheffer, Brett Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal. It turns out the actor is a voracious chef: he most recently whipped up a veal stew. "I love to read cookbooks and I subscribe to a lot of cooking magazines. I scour the internet for interesting recipes," said Gyllenhaal, who shops for the local and seasonal. "There's a [food] co-op at my niece's [Ramona, daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard] school," he said. "We get a lot of stuff from there."' Big thanks to a reader for the link.


While ignoring, as a veggie, the 'veal stew' reference, I did notice this: 'I scour the internet for interesting recipes'. I have great confidence therefore that the scouring will reveal the below for Jake.

The WDW Veggie Saturday Special

Ingredients
1 large egg, some plain flour, 2 lemons, a lime, just the right amount of milk, not too much granary sugar, tequila, a brush of oil (the memento Leaning Tower of Pisa oil bottle is optional), triple sec.

Put a medium heap of plain flour into a mixing bowl. Dent the top and add a large egg. Mix it in roughly and then add just the right amount of milk and vigorously mix until it has the texture of a watery mud slide. Heat frying pan and a touch of oil (not necessarily from a miniature Leaning Tower of Pisa bottle) until it is very hot. Pour about a half of the mixture and spread around the pan. Heat. When a golden brown on the underside flip. Or get someone else to flip and stand back. Maybe do it over a sink or a big work surface. Do the other side.


Meanwhile take a cocktail shaker and add one generous measure of tequila. To it add a measure and a half of Triple Sec. Squeeze a lemon in (avoid pips). Add a little hint of lime. Add approximately five largish ice cubes. Shake.

Remove pancake from pan and as you dress it, repeat the process with the other half of the mix. Sprinkle a thin layer of sugar over the pancake and squeeze the juice from half a lemon and spread. Dab a few drops of tequila across the pancake and add a hint of lime. If you have cointreau handy in your cooking cupboard, this may be added now. Roll pancake and repeat with second cooked pancake.

Finish shaking cocktail and pour into a suitable glass. Add a slice of lime. Salt around the rim is optional. Insert Prince of Persia DVD into DVD player. Settle back and eat, drink and indulge with the WDW Saturday Surprise. (c) WDW.


[Update] For a great account from someone lucky enough to eat pizza with Jake and Anne Hathaway in NYC, take a look here. A taster: 'When Donnie Darko walked past us I (and the rest of the women and men in Franny’s) couldn’t help but notice how darn attractive he was. Tall & brooding, part of that attraction was absolutely due to the way he was dressed. He looked like a movie star. Navy sweater paired with a brown overcoat and knitted scarf. Dress shoes and jeans. Mr. Brokeback looked stunning.' I love that Anne eats pizza and I love that Jake and Anne have pizza together.

Running Jake

Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run, has been shedding a tiny bit of light on Jake's appearance at Leadville this summer: 'Q: There are a lot of rumors out there about your book being turned into a movie. Apparently, last August, you were in Leadville with Jake Gyllenhaal, who might play you in the film. Can you shed some light on this subject? A: You know, there’s stuff going on, but from what I understand about Hollywood, there’s always stuff going on and most of it turns into nothing. All I can say right now is that there are people interested. They are exploring it, but it hasn’t gone beyond the level of exploration. At this point, there is nothing confirmed or set up at all. There is a screenwriter working on a script, but I don’t know where that’s going to go.'

'Q: So was Jake with you at Leadville? A: Yes. He was there sort of checking out the scene. He hadn’t been familiar with ultra running. He came with his brother in law, Peter Sarsgaard. I’ll tell you one thing: those dudes can run. They are very strong runners.' So it sounds like Chris did do some running with Jake and Peter.


And finally...

Jake's Love and Other Drugs co-star Anne Hathaway is on the cover of November's Vogue to mark the release of the film. Beautiful! All it needs is a dash of Jake. Source.


Includes pictures from IHJ and links. Thanks IHJ!