Competition: Four Master Chefs Pair Food with Both Red and White Wines

Celebrity Chefs, Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali, Videos, Wolfgang Puck
28 Apr 2008 Four top chefs -- Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali -- cooked up a treat at the New York Wine Experience in 2007. Each created a unique dish and paired it with two wines, one white and one red. From the Wine Spectator. {More...}

Vegas Restaurants: Celeb Chef Mecca Raking in the Bucks (But Not Beards)

Celebrity Chefs, Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
11 Apr 2008 S. Irene Virbila, Restaurant Critic for the LA Times, just did a really nice piece where she reviewed the state of restaurants in Vegas (patrons paying lots of money everywhere) and reviews the new star restaurants, particularly those at "thee" new casino in town, that are causing a lot of fuss. Beginning with "At $160 for two, it's easily the most expensive steak I've ever eaten, if not the most expensive piece of aged meat in the country." to how "in a private dining room floating above a state-of-the-art kitchen, six businessmen spend a minimum of $350 each to work their ... {More...}

Still More Famous Chefs Slated for Upcoming Pebble Beach Festival

Cat Cora, Celebrity Chefs, Charlie Trotter, Event, Food Festivals, Jacques Pepin, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Mina, Michel Richard, Ming Tsai, Thomas Keller, Todd English, Tom Colicchio
21 Mar 2008 You recall my first mention here of the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival roughly a dozen days ago. Well, with six more days left before it starts, there's even more "big names" showing up for what has become (in just it's first time ever) one of the biggest events ever. Along with the previously mentioned names of Jacques Pepin, Mark Miller, Thomas Keller, Gary Danko, Charlie Trotter, Tom Colicchio, Ted Allen, Michel Richard, Susan Spicer, Josiah Citrin, Walter Manzke, Todd English, Hubert Keller, and Michael Mina coming to the event ... ... Now also add: Cat Cora, Mark Miller, ... {More...}

Future Food Festival I: Pebble Beach Food & Wine This Month

Charlie Trotter, Food Festivals, Jacques Pepin, Michael Mina, Michel Richard, News, Thomas Keller, Todd English, Tom Colicchio
11 Mar 2008 The first ever annual Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival boasts over 50 award-winning chefs, over 200 major wineries and many other gradiose claims, thing is, grandiose but apparently true. In short, this has become one super-sized event. According to LA Eater: The weekend is chock-full of wine tasting sessions, cooking demos (Jacques Pepin, Mark Miller, Thomas Keller, Gary Danko, Charlie Trotter, Tom Colicchio, Ted Allen, Michel Richard), lunches with the chefs (Susan Spicer, Josiah Citrin, Walter Manzke, Todd English, Hubert Keller, Michael Mina and many more), a walk-around tasting event each afternoon, plus some serious dinners and rare wine auctions. ... {More...}

‘The Inn’ 30th Anniversary in 30 Days: A Culinary Milestone

Charlie Trotter, Daniel Boulud, Event, Jacques Pepin, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Martha Stewart, Patrick O'Connell, Paul Prudhomme, Star Restaurants, Thomas Keller, Wolfgang Puck
10 Mar 2008 In exactly 30 days it will be exactly 30 years since the start of The Inn at Little Washington began, which means on April 9th there will be a gala 30th Anniversary Party for the restaurant and it's unique proprieter Patrick O'Connell. O'Connell describes the restaurant, located in Washington, Virginia, rougly 65 miles out from Washington DC as a concept that simple was "just a hideaway in the country owned by two people who like to entertain a lot". He also started ths little restaurant in this little hamlet (at the time of populaton 300) with a simple little ... {More...}