Cooking
For those of you who missed Ruth Reichl, the good news is her talk will be broadcast on Writer's Voice Radio on KALW. When I have a date I will post it.
In the meantime here are some highlights:
What do you cook at home on a Tuesday night?
Fast things. Spaghetti carbonara, lamb chops, potatoes, steamed fish. Gourmet Everyday recipes from the magazine.
What projects do you have coming up?
HBO has bought and is developing a series based on Comfort Me with Apples and Garlic and Sapphires.
If not New York, what are the great food cities right now?
Hong Kong, Sidney and London. What's happening in Asia is stunning. There are well-trained chefs, lots of money and an obsession with the regional cuisine of China. It seems to be percolating into Australia.
Favorite restaurants in London?
St. John and Moro.
Favorites in New York?
Telepan and Pearl Oyster Bar.
What food writers do you admire?
AJ Liebling, MFK Fisher, but also non-fiction writers who happen to write about food such as Diana Abu-Jaber and Bemelmans.
What do you think of the rise of celebrity chefs and the Food Network?
Cooking is connection that we all desperately need. People don't see their mothers and aunts cooking and so they turn to television chefs. Unfortunately it's not taking people into the kitchen.
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- A Taste Of Shanghai
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- The Victory Garden Cookbook: Review
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- Meet Tony Bourdain
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- Food Book Report
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Cooking
Ruth Reichl Q&A
For those of you who missed Ruth Reichl, the good news is her talk will be broadcast on Writer's Voice Radio on KALW. When I have a date I will post it.
In the meantime here are some highlights:
What do you cook at home on a Tuesday night?
Fast things. Spaghetti carbonara, lamb chops, potatoes, steamed fish. Gourmet Everyday recipes from the magazine.
What projects do you have coming up?
HBO has bought and is developing a series based on Comfort Me with Apples and Garlic and Sapphires.
If not New York, what are the great food cities right now?
Hong Kong, Sidney and London. What's happening in Asia is stunning. There are well-trained chefs, lots of money and an obsession with the regional cuisine of China. It seems to be percolating into Australia.
Favorite restaurants in London?
St. John and Moro.
Favorites in New York?
Telepan and Pearl Oyster Bar.
What food writers do you admire?
AJ Liebling, MFK Fisher, but also non-fiction writers who happen to write about food such as Diana Abu-Jaber and Bemelmans.
What do you think of the rise of celebrity chefs and the Food Network?
Cooking is connection that we all desperately need. People don't see their mothers and aunts cooking and so they turn to television chefs. Unfortunately it's not taking people into the kitchen.
FOOD
- London Food Trends
Elderflower spritzers served in test tubes Having been to London many times for vacation, I couldn't help but notice things were a bit different this time around. Sure, the recent foodie focus of London has been documented ad nauseum, and restaurants...
- A Taste Of Shanghai
Shanghai is in the news. A lot. It's in the financial headlines and seems to come up often in discussions about restaurants and food. Back in March when I went to hear Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl speak she talked about "an obsession with...
- The Victory Garden Cookbook: Review
Last week I got a chance to hear Ruth Reichl, the editor of Gourmet magazine speak at a City Arts and Lectures program at Herbst Theater. I took copious notes so I will probably be regaling you with tidbits over the next few weeks. One of the questions...
- Meet Tony Bourdain
Last week Anthony Bourdain came to town to sign copies of his latest book, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking. At A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, the space was jammed with foodies,...
- Food Book Report
I seem to be reading a lot of books on food these days, and good ones. I really enjoyed Apricots on the Nile and I discovered it in the best bookstore in all of London (as far as I'm concerned) called Books for Cooks. Books for Cooks actually has...