I’m the Sandra Lee of Jewish cooking. With Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, this Friday, I started thinking about the dishes my mother would make from scratch and how I have made them simpler.
When the opportunity arose that I was going to interview Dan Aykroyd the first question that came to mind to ask him was did he ever meet the woman he satirized on Saturday Night Live, the ground-breaking Julia Child?
This time of year fills our tables with the bounty of summer as well as the beginnings of the fall produce. It is a great time to have both seasons on your table. Many restaurants are gearing up and refreshing their menus for the new season. One those restaurants is The Capital Grille, offering a $39 three course dinner featuring the seasonal flavors. The menu has started already and last through November 1st with their ‘Best of the Season” menu.
When job opportunities are far and few between and closing that deal could be lost over lacking proper dining skills, you might want to consider brushing up your manners. Employers have the pick-of-the-litter nowadays and how you are able to present yourself and interact with others is scrutinized very closely.
Watching Top Chef Las Vegas this evening reminded me of the video interviews I filmed with 3 cheftestants and one Top Chef winner: Carla Hall, Jeff McInnis, Michael Midgely and Ilan Hall. I thought you would enjoy having all four candid interviews in one post for easy viewing entertainment.
Here comes one of the “back in the days stories.” When I was young, well, when I was younger, single and hanging out in Philadelphia I heard of Le Bec Fin. My friend Lois would talk incessantly about it, the premiere restaurant in the City of Brotherly Love. Over the 40 years, Chef Perrier has run the kitchen he has won accolades left and right, both nationally and internationally.
The first movie trailer is out on this dark comedy thriller where a New York City chef and television personality takes on the sweet taste of revenge against a food critic for crucifying his restaurant. Watch the first trailer: Chef gone killer in Bitter Feast
I’m not much of gardener but I planted a tomato plant in my front flower bed this year and it has been fruitful. There is just something about the summer’s first picked tomato, warm from the sun, eating it over the kitchen sink with its juice running down my face - truly a zen moment. How good was it, ask the rabbits who have discovered the plant and feast as I sleep. Maybe they are the rabbits that haunted my father's gardern, he called them son-of-a-b*tch and g*d-damn-b*stard.
