McDonald’s Goes Feng Shui, in City of Industry Anyway
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The owners of a McDonald’s in the City of Industry, Calif. (famous as a city for virtually nothing), decided to apply the Chinese science (if one can call it that) of Feng Shui to the interior of its remodeled [...]
Read More..>>Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe: Panera Does It Better
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I attended a Videomaker conference this past week in Pasadena, Calif., to hone up on producing videos for the Web and other purposes, so with an hour for lunch, I walked over to Paseo Pasadena, the shopping mall, and ventured into a restaurant called Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe.
When I got inside and looked at the set-up, the [...]
Nothing Beats a Snack Like Potato Chips
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Whenever I’d get depressed in the past, I’d go out and buy a bag of Ruffles and down them with some nice vino, or martinis, or anything rated by proof to deaden the psychic pain. The chips made me happy, the booze sleepy and carefree.
That’s why I was elated to see this potato chip rating competition [...]
I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself
Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Have you ever been to a restaurant in Europe, ordered wine with your meal, found the wine fabulous, wrote down the year and label, only to return home, buy it and find out it actually sucks?
Anyway, that’s pretty much the phenomenon with TV cooking shows. Even when they have famous chefs cooking, the audience is [...]
Corporate Raider Gobbles Up Wendy’s
Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Look for massive layoffs at the corporate level as Nelson Peltz, corporate raider, has managed a third-time’s-the-charm buyout of Wendy’s for an all-stock deal estimated at $2.3 billion
Wendy’s was the brainchild of Bill Thomas, who named the iconic burger chain after his daughter, while Thomas himself was mentored and encouraged by none other than Col. Harlan [...]
Original ‘Iron Chef’ Returns to TV
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
A gracious reader named Orli Sharaby wrote to say that Iron Chef Japan, the original and still the best of all chef competition shows, is returning to television on Fine Living Network at 11 p.m. on May 5. I believe it will be on all weeknights, but I’m still hoping to verify that. I’ll have my DVR [...]
Read More..>>Guy Fieri to Appear at Disneyland Food & Wine Festival
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I missed Cat Cora, who was part of the opening weekend festivities of the California Food and Wine Festival at Disneyland April 11-May 5. Actually, booze is not allowed in Disneyland (except for one exclusive retreat), so the festival is being held at Disney’s California Adventure across the street from D’Land.
This Saturday, April 26, one [...]
Iron Chef America Should Carry a Warning Label
Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
You know how feature films that have been reformatted for television open with a warning that the movie has been "modified" to fit the screen?
Iron Chef America should learn from that example, and at the start of certain episodes should carry this warning:
"This episode has been modified to guarantee the Iron Chef will win. Karine [...]
Marche Moderne: The Rich Are Different
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Reputedly, Mark Twain quipped: "The rich are different from you and me. They have more money."
I kept thinking of that line as I dined with my wife and daughter at a French restaurant-slash-bistro (very little of the latter evident, however) called Marche Moderne in Costa Mesa, Calif. We ended up there after a UC Berkeley [...]
The Enomatic Isn’t So Enigmatic After All
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
When I visited a wine destination named Cavas last month in South Beach, the attendant/server on duty told me it was the only wine spot in the U.S. to feature the automatic wine dispenser called the Enomatic.
Either he was blowing a little smoke, or at the time he was telling me the truth.
Turns out that [...]
