Does Anyone Know How to Make a Veggie Burger?
Posted on November 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!I don’t. I’ve tried and failed, as have most restaurants I’ve been to. The damn things, though often tasting fine, just fall apart.
It was no different at the wine bar and restaurant called 25º in Huntington Beach, Callif., where [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from My House to Yours!
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
You can see before and after of our 22-pounder for Thanksgiving. We’ll be enjoying him soon. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
Read More..>>Eli Kirshtein Speaks Candidly About ‘Top Chef’ Elimination
Posted on November 20, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I’ve also wondered how Top Chef goes through an entire season without word of who’s been eliminated and who’s the eventual winner leaking out. I mean, they film these things weeks or months in advance. Someone should be expected to leak things, even if just a downsized production crew member.
Anyway, enough of that, take a [...]
‘Top Chef’ Finalists Thrown Curve by Thomas Keller
Posted on November 18, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
And then there were five.
Contestants left on Top Chef Las Vegas, that is.
With no immunity left, the chefs must make a classically difficult dish invotslving many different proteins in one, and must make it taste delicious. Will they be able to pull together a cohesive dish? And when the finalis must cook for notable chef Thomas [...]
Madeleine’s in Pasadena: Do Casual and Formal Mix?
Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Madeleine’s Wine Bar and Restaurant in Pasadena, Calif., seems to be mostly the latter. Even though it does have some outdoor and patio-style seating (and a bar). It seems a wine bar in search of itself, in a manner of speaking.
It’s been a while since I and my wife visited. In fact, it was the last (and most expensive) stop [...]
Breakfast in Bed for Padma and Nigella on ‘Top Chef’
Posted on November 11, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
When I got the press announcement that tonight’s Top Chef will feature breakfast in bed for Padma Lakshmi and guest judge Nigella Lawson, I chuckled to myself, "Now if they’re in bed together, that’s a scene I want to see!" I doubt things will get that spicy, though, on the Quickfire Challenge.
For the Elimination Round, [...]
‘Top Chef Reunion’ Provides Break from Competition
Posted on November 4, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Tonight on a special episode of Top Chef, your favorite chef’testants from seasons one to five are back to reunite and hash out some of Top Chef’s most heated moments!
Season five’s Fabio Vivani hosts this exclusive dinner where some of past seasons most familliar faces let it all out on the table. What will happen when old [...]
Mike Isabella: Toppled Top Chef’testant Still Has Jose Andres to Guide His Future
Posted on November 2, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
The judges found him a bit arrogant (I got the same impression) when they eliminated Miked Isabella from Top Chef this past week.
However, the future does look bright for the 34-year-old. Who in the culinary world wouldn’t want to be executive chef to someone like Jose Andres?
READ THE MIKE ISABELLA INTERVIEW
