Wine and Ravioli Shine at Stars of Santa Barbara
Posted on June 28, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Forgot to load the SD card in my digital camera, so all I had left at Stars of Santa Barbara was my pocket YouTube camcorder (results below).
The charity event, benefitting the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, was [...]
‘Top Chef Masters’ Must Master a Color Scheme
Posted on June 24, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Tonight’s Top Chef Masters pays tribute to a classic season two Top Chef Quickfire in which the chefs must create a dish using one single color – and of course it has to be delicious!
When Ludo Lefebvre (Ludo Bites) and Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill) both plan to make a quesadilla as their main dish for the elimination challenge, [...]
Wine & Cars Under the Stars: Some e-Coli There Too?
Posted on June 23, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I attended my second Wine & Cars Under the Stars at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., this past Saturday. Though I found it about a third (or more) smaller/fewer in offerings of wine and food from 2008, I enjoyed myself.
I discovered some really nice wines and gobbled the food, sparse though the grub may have been, and overall enjoyed [...]
LA Live Almost Rocks, Which Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra Definitely Do
Posted on June 22, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Okay, so an orchestra dedicated to playing waltzes and opera pieces can’t really be said to rock in music terms, but tell that to the several thousand people who turned out at the Noka Theater at LA Live this past Friday, June 19, to spend the evening with Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Actually, [...]
Vending Machine Battle Tonight on ‘Top Chef Masters’
Posted on June 17, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Tonight on Top Chef Masters, the chefs are operating on an extremely tight budget and must create the perfect amuse bouche using only what they can find in a vending machine (a la a season-two Top Chef competition).
Master chefs Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne Tracht, Graham Elliot Bowles and Elizabeth Falkner find themselves “lost” as they are [...]
Cellar Dwellers from Heitz Produce Some Surprises
Posted on June 16, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
When a friend at work recently said he needed to start drinking some wines he’d been aging, my mind was drawn to two bottles of Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignons that I’d been keeping for probably way too long. One was a 1982 Martha’s Vineyard, and the other a 1984 Bella Oaks. When I bought them, [...]
Read More..>>‘Food Inc.’: How Stuff Gets from the Farmer to You
Posted on June 12, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The new documentary "Food, Inc" explores how America’s food is produced, packaged and sold. Director Robert Kenner and consulting writer Michael Pollan discuss what the future of farming may look like, as well as the health costs of efficient, abundant food production. Watch the trailer:
Read More..>>‘Top Chef Masters’ Debuts Tonight
Posted on June 10, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
From the promo material I received:
Tonight begins the ultimate foodie face-off as 24 of the most established chefs compete in tried-and-true Top Chef format for the chance to become “Top Chef Master”! The first four chefs to draw knives and are tasked with cooking dessert for a tough crowd of judges and Girl Scouts. Later [...]
LA WineFest: Better for Raleigh Studios Than ‘Ugly Betty’
Posted on June 7, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you hurry on over, providing you live in Southern California, you can still catch the second and concluding day of LA WineFest 2009, which is being held at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood from 2 to 6 p.m. today (Sunday, June 7) as well as yesterday, when it was held during the same time-frame. [...]
Read More..>>Towering Surprises at The Anaheim White House
Posted on June 3, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
We visited the Anaheim White House, a Northern Italian eatery situated in a restored 1909, yup, white house, this past weekend, and were in for a few surprises. The occasion? My wife’s birthday.
First, let me say that I was last at the Anaheim White House ten or so years ago and found it overpriced for [...]
