- Food Festivals, News Bites, Top Chef, Wolfgang Puck
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14 May 2008
Pack Your Knives and ... Enter. Broadcasting & Cable has the scoop on the mega-blitz Bravo is launching to capitalize on all things Top Chef:
Bravo Media is striking new partnerships to sell everything from cruises to cookbooks tied to its shows, in an effort to take its brand name beyond television. The deals, which include a Top Chef cruise, calendar and cooking class. For "Chef", the network will launch a 20-city mobile tour with an 18-wheel semi-truck branded with show graphics and staffed with former contestants. The truck makes its first appearance at the upcoming NCTA cable show ... {More...}
- Cat Cora, Celebrity Chefs, Daniel Boulud, Event, Food Festivals, Guy Savoy, Hubert Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Joel Robuchon, Kerry Simon, Michael Mina, Susan Spicer, Todd English, Wolfgang Puck
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06 May 2008
We haven't mentioned the Vegas Uncorked F&WF in a while and, well, seems like a blink of the eye and it's here already! Well, two days away: running May 8 thru 11, and featuring tons of chefs and myriad food tastings and competitions The event, officially the Second Annual Vegas Uncork'd: A Bon Appétit Epicurean Experience is billed as "a delicious and inspiring star-studded weekend is guaranteed to satisfy every craving when it comes to providing access to world-class chefs, sommeliers, great restaurant design, and Bon Appétit editors and contributors" and looking over the attendees and events it's hard ... {More...}
- Celebrity Chefs, Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali, Videos, Wolfgang Puck
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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.
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- Celebrity Chefs, Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
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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...}
- Bobby Flay, Eric Ripert, Feature, Georges Perrier, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Mina, Star Restaurants, Wolfgang Puck
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08 Apr 2008
©2008 Harry Kenney
I've been working on this article for a week or so now. Funny thing, it started out as talking about two cities, Philadelphia in the US and Vancouver in Canada. Why? Because to me both are excellent food cities and yet both have not gotten the respect they deserve from the culinary world. So while different, they have much in common; additionally, I didn't think I'd have enough to write on each city by themselves (again, why is that? From being ignored or underplayed in the food press.)
I'm a Philadelphian myself and ... {More...}
