Just before the infamous storm "Sandy" hit the East coast, I got word that pastry chef Gregoire Michaud was going to be visiting New York City. We had previously assed some texts, finally meeting for mojitos at a bar on the busy and battered streets of...
While doing a long walk around London's huge roads and parks, I got hungry. My wife's friend suggested Granger & Co., a Notting Hill neighborhood favorite. Chef Bill Granger, who also writes cookbooks, creates a distinctively Australian flavor to his casual food....
Visiting London, I wanted to see Jamie Oliver's Recipease his school and restaurant in Notting Hill. It's definitely a tourist spot, and cute seeing kids with hands in food like a sandbox.The shop is a two level affair covered with beautiful restaurant equipment....
My wife just took me out to dinner at Harlem's Red Rooster, Marcus Samuelsson's revived Harlem restaurant. It offers a slice of Americana with brilliant updated soul food. The staples are here; grits, yard bird (fried chicken) and corn bread, cow peas, buttermilk...
Meiuller Ouvrier De France is a distinguished award presented to craftsman in trades. Most well known category are chefs and pastry chefs. Paying a visit to my former chef Jean Michel Bergounoux last week, I learned that he had just been given this honor. When I saw...
This recent MemoriaI day weekend, I returned to Montreal to visit my friend Michele Forgione at his restaurant Osteria Venti. He serves Italian food at its simplest; no fussy garnishes or spiraling towers. Taste is the key to the regional food here. Michele and I met...
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