It seems that a lot of people are interested in what chefs do on their day off. Most of my chef friends would respond “What day off?” Maybe because even if they have a day off, they often spend it cooking. Days off allow for enough time to visit the farmers’ markets, try new ingredients, andContinueContinue reading “Tuesday’s Top Five – Where Chefs Eat in NYC”
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Live From Paris – Part Trois
The next stop on a day of roaming Paris with my sister Maria… Ooh, Fromage! She didn’t say where she was, but it looks good to me.
Live From Paris – Part Deux
Live From Paris
My sister Maria is in Paris for business and has generously volunteered to be my foreign correspondent today (ie: letting me live vicariously through her!). She just sent me these photos and a text description of her lunch in Paris just a little while ago. Live from L’As du Falafel on Rue du Rosiers aka “Falafel Row” inContinueContinue reading “Live From Paris”
California, Here I Come! – Part I
After over a year of not setting foot on the west coast, I finally purchased my tickets to San Francisco! (I’m sure my mother will be thrilled to read this!) My family (one part of it or another) has been living in the Bay Area since the mid-1980’s, so SF has been like a second home for meContinueContinue reading “California, Here I Come! – Part I”
Chef’s Night Off – Moroccan in Bay Ridge
Over the wet weekend I had dinner with my friend Hayley at la Maison du Couscous, a tiny out of the way Moroccan place in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. When I lived in Bay Ridge, I never ate here but always wanted to try it… so with cabin fever from all the rain, I decided toContinueContinue reading “Chef’s Night Off – Moroccan in Bay Ridge”
More Armchair Traveling – Italy to Vietnam
On rainy days when I have to get up and go to work, I wish that I could grab a cup of coffee, a good book or a stack of magazines and curl up in my cozy chair. I love the experience of being transported to new and exotic places through stories, photos and recipes.ContinueContinue reading “More Armchair Traveling – Italy to Vietnam”
More on Japanese Grilling
Today I spent a bit more time researching the grilling technique I wrote about yesterday, so today’s “Been There, Read That” will take us a little further into this subject (this may actually be the beginning of a new food tangent for me). I will admit that until the bincho-tan demonstration last week, my experience withContinueContinue reading “More on Japanese Grilling”