Christmas in Paris, Anyone?
Posted on September 30, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
What a work of art this Buche de Noel designed by Alexis Mabille for Angelina Salon de The in Paris. Makes me want to book passage for a month’s stay in December. Christmas Eve with La bûche de Noël d’Angelina par Alexis Mabille, anyone?
Read More..>>Hodad’s: Guy Fieri’s Idea of the Best Use of Bacon
Posted on September 28, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
When I watched the Food Network series The Best Thing I Ever Ate when the "best thing" was bacon, I paid closer attention than usual since I am flat out a bacon freak. During the half-hour segment, different hosts from Food Network shows took us to their favorite places wherein the use of bacon is, according to [...]
Read More..>>Crowds Sparse, So Wine Flows Freely at L.A. County Fair
Posted on September 26, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I remember in 2008, before the fall of Lehman Brothers (and even afterward), the crowds at the wine pavilion at the Los Angeles County Fair could run two or three deep waiting to belly up to the bar for some tastes (not free, of course). This year the crowds were way down, so it was [...]
Read More..>>Penn and Teller to Judge Elimination Round on ‘Top Chef’
Posted on September 23, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
This week the Top Chef Kitchen gets even more frenetic when the notable magic duo Penn & Teller come by to judge the elimination challenge. Will the chefs be able to wow these Vegas-based judges? And when the chef’testants must deconstruct a well-known dish in an innovative way, some of the front-runners hit a wall in coming up [...]
Read More..>>Taste of Newport a Monumental Rip-Off
Posted on September 21, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | 1 Comment
My mother always used to say, or at least legend has it that she should have said, "If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything."
Okay, since I do have something nice to say about the 21st Annual Taste of Newport in Newport Beach, Calif., I’ll start with that, "The weather was [...]
SeptemberFest Held on Paramount Back Lot, But for What?
Posted on September 20, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The only reason I even learned about this event was via an e-mail from Gold Star, the online service that offers reduced-priced tickets to various events (I assume in more places than Southern California, but that’s where I live), but something called SeptemberFest at Paramount Studios sounded interesting. It was to be a take on the [...]
Read More..>>Orange County Restaurant Week a Real Steal
Posted on September 19, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The prices have plunged this year for Orange County Restaurant Week, which unfortunately closes today, Sept. 19, 2009. Lunches for $10 at many places are half what they were last year, as are dinners at $20 (though some restuarants stiill go as high as $40).
My wife and I finally had time on Friday night, one day [...]
Video Interview With ‘Top Chef’ Guest Chef Tim Love
Posted on September 17, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I actually haven’t seen the Sept. 16 episode of Top Chef Las Vegas yet, as that channel suddenly doesn’t work on my Time-Warner cable system, but here’s an interview I obtained with the night;s guest judge, Chef Tim Love, in which he describes how he got his start and much more:
Read More..>>Some Prickly Business on the Next ‘Top Chef’
Posted on September 15, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The chefs have another “high stakes" Quickfire when they discover they must work with a particularly tricky ingredient–the cactus. But sticking through the prickly challenge pays off because the winner will receive $15,000! The Quickfire challenge then turns out to be a forward to the elimination where the chefs must take it out to the sweltering [...]
Read More..>>Could Be End of McFish as Food Chain Is Threatened
Posted on September 12, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I eat maybe one or two Filet-o-Fish at McDonald’s a year, usually when I’m feeling calorie- and cholesterol-conscious. I don’t dislike the McD fish sandwiches, but I’m not wild about them either.
Now it comes to light that the fish from which McFish is made–the New Zealand hoki (pictured)–is almost an endangered species as it’s been [...]
