The Silver Palate Cookbook recently celebrated it’s 25th anniversary, a ground breaking cookbook in the 80’s. Sheila Lukins, co-author passed away Sunday....
You all can thank Downtown Diane for this link to This is Why You Are Fat website of photographs of foods so laden with calories it is mind-boggling. Sure enough they had a picture of the KFC Double Down sandwich that I wrote about earlier this week. The sandwich is two fried boneless chicken breasts that surround two cheeses, bacon and the KFC special sauce.
I just watched the video of Chef Gordon Ramsay on Jimmy Kimmel Show earlier this week chatting about puffins, you know the cute little birds (see photo). Ramsay was sky fishing in Iceland on his British TV show, The F Word and was filmed catching the puffins and eating it's freshly killed raw heart. Read more and watch video Have a heart Chef Ramsay
Ghostbuster, Blues Brother, Saturday Night Live’s Dan Aykroyd is coming to Baltimore on Friday, September 11th to Cranbrook Liquors to promote his Crystal Head Vodka. Entrepreneural Aykroyd, whose interest in the spirit world is both literal and figurative, with his Dan Aykroyd Wines, Patron Tequila, and his Crystal Head Vodka as well as his interest in the supernatural, will be meeting the public and signing bottles... Dan Aykroyd is coming – who you gonna to call?
The invitation arrived two weeks ago, an invite to Chateau Vin-Mer for an appetizer challenge. Enter your best appetizer dish the invite said. I didn’t have time to fill out the form though I RSVP’d that I was coming and participating in the challenge. I honestly didn’t think of what appetizer I was going to take until that morning. I wanted to do fresh figs stuffed with Gorgonzola cheese and topped with honey.
The International House of Pancakes recently kicked off their summer program of Kids Eat Free dinner and it will be running through September13th. I have checked and a number in the Baltimore area IHOPs are participating.
The “Oh My God” is for the new technology, Clickcast on Facebook that allows people to watch a LIVE video cast and instant message questions. Next week Whole Foods is sponsoring a LIVE video cast with Chef Ann Cooper, the Renegade Lunch Lady. What Michael Pollan is to how we view food today, Chef Cooper is how we view what our children are eating in our schools. 
Bam! There I was in the church of Emeril during the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival. Not literally, but part of his audience at his sell-out, two hour show at the Caesar’s Palace-Circus Maximus theater. Every seat filled with Emeril Lagasse fans; men and women, young and old, every race, creed and orientation were there for the food gospel according to Emeril. I thought the roof would come down from the applause, whooping and hollering when he came on stage. I actually found it funny and started to laugh, I guess I’m jaded.
It is early, 3:40 a.m. and I’m getting ready for to go to DC and work this a.m. when I find and invitation on Facebook to invest in Chef Joshua Hill’s next food project, a mobile Memphis-style BBQ restaurant. This is a unique approach, so I letting you make your own decision. I am just the messenger.
When you see Betty Crocker come out with a gluten-free cake mix you know there is a mainstream need for the product. Those who suffer with Celiac’s disease, cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. As this disease grows so grows cookbooks.....read the complete story and watch videos: Easy Gluten-Free Baking
Aloha Kitchen Challenge is taking place right here in Baltimore on Monday, August 17th at Roy’s Restaurant in Harbor East. James Beard Award Winning chef, Roy Yamaguchi of recent Top Chef Master fame will be in Baltimore to play master of ceremonies to the evening’s culinary challenge.
I have always been a follower, never the leader, and as much as I would like to be one of the pack lined up in a Starbucks or other coffee emporiums ordering a mocha, double latte, it will never happen. Fair trade, organic, hauled on the back of mule in Columbia means nothing to me – I hate coffee, I hate the smell, and I hate the taste. You say everyone loves coffee, but I beg to differ.
