- Celebrity Chefs, Dan Barber, Daniel Boulud, Hung Huynh, Todd English, Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne
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08 Apr 2008
Last week Food and Wine magazine named their annual Best New Chefs list for 2008. They are, alphabetically:
Jim Burke of James in Philadelphia; Gerard Craft of Niche in St. Louis; Tim Cushman of O Ya in Boston; Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Calif.; Koren Grieveson of Avec in Chicago; Michael Psilakis of Anthos in New York City; Ethan Stowell of Union in Seattle; Giuseppe Tentori of Boka in Chicago; Eric Warnstedt of Hen of the Wood in Waterbury, Vt.; and, Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s in New Orleans.
The winners were fêted last Thursday night at a party in New ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Feature, Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, Tom Colicchio
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04 Apr 2008
©2008 Harry Kenney
Item: One particular T-shirt I own says: "Never trust a skinny chef." I'd be wearing it now as I write this, but it's in the hamper ... with some dried barbecue sauce on it.
Item: Two weeks ago Tom Colicchio was so upset he nearly barked at Aussie contestant Mark on a Top Chef episode for having the temerity to cut down the fat on the duck entree Tom was eating.
Item: Dan Barber cooks Braised Pork Belly for FCI founder Dorothy Hamilton on Chef's Story and they're both in heaven.
Come on! Pork belly, fat ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Food Festivals, Iron Chef America, Jacques Pepin, Masaharu Morimoto, News, Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef
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31 Mar 2008
So the first-ever Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival finally happened and ended last night. It was definitely a rousing success.
Let me quickly mention my irritation at what ever San Francisco Chronicle copy room hack came up with the misleading headline of: For $4,750, foodies eat up the chance to see famous chefs in person Compare the headline to the very last sentence in the article: "Per-person cost for the four-day Pebble Beach Food & Wine extravaganza ranges from $100 for a single class or seminar to $4,750 for lodging and admission to all events." In short, ... {More...}
- Chefography, Duff Goldman, Feature, Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef, Wolfgang Puck
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23 Mar 2008
Lot's of "food buzz" around the Net this past week on a few different things. The loudest was over the "text poll" conducted Wednesday on Top Chef where the question was "which animal is Tom Colicchio" and the overwhelming answer was "bear". This caused a major gigglefest amongst the gay community, blogs and forums alike. With Gawker being a prime example with their "Colicchio Outed" headline, albeit tounge-in-cheek:
Last night's challenge, in which chefs were asked to design a menu based on the diets of five animals, seemed an elaborate set up to make the joke, as mathnet did ... {More...}
- Eric Ripert, Feature, Tom Colicchio
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22 Mar 2008
So many good food and wine articles out there waiting to be discovered. One recent delight was Pascale LeDraoulec's article in Forbes called Ten Perfect Food & Wine Pairings. In it he talks to such culinary luminaries as Eric Ripert, Tom Colicchio, David Kinch, Nobu Fakuda, Michelle Bernstein, and Josh Emett among others about those perfect pairings.
"Food and wine pairing has finally hit the tipping point, in that it is now expected at fine-dining restaurants, and increasingly at any self-respecting restaurant," says Karen Page, author (with Andrew Dornenburg) of "What To Drink with What You Eat".
Among the pairing ... {More...}
