I've seen some pretty bad restaurant bathrooms in my day. The ones with no towels, no hand driers and you look around the room looking for anything to dry your hands. At last you settle for the toilet paper that crumbles in to snow like pieces of air and half stick to your hand that you can't shake off. The partially flushing toilet and the trash can overflowing with paper, real turn offs.
Mark you calendars for Monday, November 2nd to go to Center Stage for Stoop Storytelling on cooking, eating and assorted food issues. Seven speakers get up and for seven minutes tell their personal stories centered on food. We all can talk about food; I know I’m good for at least eight minutes.Tidbits is always a collection of foodie news, today we take a look back at this week's most popular stories with new foodie news.
Cooking contest with Pama Liqueur: If you are a creative cook this might be the cooking contest you can win. Grand Prize, a trip for two to The Food and Wine Classic in Aspen.
B & O Brasserie, in the Hotel Monaco at 2 N. Charles Street is launching their fall cocktail menu. Master mixologist, Brendan Dorr, never fails. Here is a sampling of the new cocktails:
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Bringing family and friends to the table and sharing food is what separates us from other life forms; it creates bonds, feelings of love and acceptance. To aid in the ritual of creating meals and breaking bread, I have put together an updated list of cooking and baking classes in the Baltimore and surrounding areas. This time I have set them up by area: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County. If you know of other classes being offered in the area please share and I will update this list.
Before the South Beach, Atlantic City, New York City Food and Wine Festivals there was The Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, the mother of all food and wine festivals. The Aspen/Snowmass International Wine Classic started in 1983 and Food and Wine Magazine became the host in 1986. I’ve been reading about it for years and wishing it was within my budget. More of you have heard of it as part of the grand prize for Top Chef Winners. It is a foodie’s dream vacation.
The article in Serious Eats about taste testing mustards inspired me to go look at all the mustards I have in my refrigerator. I remember having numerous mustard jars: Dijon, horseradish, creole, honey, the key word is remember, because they weren’t there anymore. They probably disappeared in one of my fits of tossing out food products that have been sitting in the refrigerator since recipe testing for the Yum cookbook three years ago.
Oooh be still my heart, chocolate, lots of chocolate, to see and taste from far-and-wide under one roof with celebrity pastry chefs the likes of Jacques Torres, Nick Malgieri and more and you can go! Yes, you can - grab a friend and make a day of it.
There are many like me that are food curious: who want to try new foods, new restaurants, new cuisines, authentic cuisines and will travel many a mile for the lightest gnocchi, Korean BBQ or the perfect Bahn Mi. When I got the invitation to go to Grace Garden restaurant in Odenton for a traditional and not so traditional Harvest Moon Festival multi-course Chinese dinner, I jumped at the opportunity.
Michelin Guide awards stars to the crème de la crème of restaurants worldwide. Restaurants in Europe live and die by their Michelin stars and Chef Loiseau of La Côte d’Or is theorized to have committed suicide after hearing the rumor he was losing a Michelin star
I’m in a line at a fast food restaurant when the cashier opens up the top of her shirt puts her face in it and sneezes. What I thought was disgusting was really much better than her sneezing out into the public space. I guess she never watched Elmo on where one should sneeze. Now with concerns running high with the Swine flu pandemic, restaurateurs are reinforcing the proper way of washing hands in hot water for 20 seconds, to sneeze into the crook of their arms and if you are sick-don’t come to work.
Here is a great reason to pack up the family tomorrow, Saturday, October 10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m and go to Padonia Park, enjoy a festival in the beauty of a park with live musical performances, crafts, art, games, shows and help the Nikki Perlow Foundation, which benefits young adults struggling with the disease of addiction.
A number of media folks were invited to enjoy a dinner and learn more about Pizzazz Tuscan Grille.
