I love eating fresh, seasonal food in its actual form, foregoing processed food in its often scary incarnations. Which is why I am excited for Erica Wides’ smart new radio show: Let’s Get Real: The Cooking Show About Finding, Preparing and Eating Food on the Heritage Radio Network. Erica Wides, a Chef and Culinary Instructor [...]
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The 3rd Annual Summit Wine & Food Festival
What are you doing this weekend? Want to meet a few top chefs? I am heading to the Third Annual Summit Wine & Food Festival where I’m going to taste the food of these chefs: • Executive Chef of Neely’s Barbecue Parlor Wade Burch, who won Food Network’s Chopped • Alex Garcia, star of Cooking [...]
What ingredients will make your life a success?
For the entire day I am guest blogger at the lovely Heather Gray’s site, A Soul-Filled Life. Find out how all the ingredients added up in my article, When the Right Ingredients Come Together. And let me know what ingredients work for you! Let me know in the comments section below or on A Soul-Filled [...]
Letter Grading of Restaurants’ Hygiene
What grade will your favorite restaurants receive? I’m curious what you think of this recent New York Times article about letter grading of restaurants’ hygine?
NYC Food Film Festival
Skip the faux-buttered popcorn and mass-produced candy. When I heard about the Food Film Festival I was immediately interested. I can watch a food-related film and eat food that appears in the movie, too? That means chocolates, oyster, ice cream and more. Sounds dreamy. The 4th annual NYC Food Film Festival is happening now (it [...]
Dean & Deluca Chef Consultation
I’ve noticed that there are two sorts of home cooks: those who frown upon advice from a chef and those who welcome it. I am from the latter group. I’ve learned some techniques from chefs I never could have learned on my own. And I love picking their brains about where they shop and how [...]
Shot of Charity at Dean & DeLuca
It might not seem possible to donate to charity while sipping a cappuccino as you stroll through SoHo. But a new partnership between Dean & DeLuca and Shot of Charity™, a nonprofit founded by three Georgetown University graduate students, makes that possible. When you order a coffee and ask for a Shot of Charity™, 25 [...]
The Bread Art Project with Melissa d’Arabian
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event at a dreamy West Village townhouse in which the Grain Foods Foundation and Melissa d’Arabian launched The Bread Art Project, which benefits the Share Our Strength® Foundation. The Bread Art Project was created to increase awareness of the growing hunger problem in the U.S. From now [...]
Organizing the kitchen
Today’s article is from professional organizer, Ashley Daly, of Arrange and Change. Now where did I put the grater? After an impromptu survey of some of the best cooks I know, (which didn’t include me!) I’ve identified the top organizing issues for the kitchen. As with any space you’re in everyday, the kitchen can get [...]
