No breakfast but hors d’oeuvres at Tiffany, the NEW Tiffany & Co.’s that opened this month inTowson Town Center.
Executive Chef Nancy Longo, Pierpoint Restaurant, has been offering cooking classes longer than anyone else in Baltimore. What is special about her classes is that they are hands-on where everyone participates in the preparation of the dishes. Everyone gets involved, down and dirty creating the recipes.
The more and more on-line restaurant discount couponing companies that are appearing the more one has to consider if this is the death knell for Restaurant Weeks held in many cities throughout the country. It sure makes one stop and go hmmmmmm
You already have it on your calendar to dine out on Thursday, September 23rd whether with friends or family, whether for special celebration or for business. Take this opportunity to dine out and do good. There is no extra out of pocket cost to you, the participating restaurants are donating a portion of their proceeds for that day to Moveable Feast.
So, the husband and I are on vacation in the hotel room watching these travel log food shows at the end of our evening. Yes, I know we should consider other activities but this is a food column. Guy Fieri of the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives offers up an episode tease for burgers and dogs saying he is going to a Baltimore restaurant that serves up the best Coney Island hot dogs. Like a real dog whose ears perk up at hearing cellophane food wrappers, the husband sat upright and started to salivate.
Have you ever watched any of the food reality shows and said to yourself, I could do that?Now you get a chance to prove it. The Food Network is casting for the 2011 season for the Next Food Network Star here in Baltimore It will be an open casting call on Sunday, September 26th, 2010. It will be there first time in Baltimore and they seemed pumped to meet new, potential candidates!
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Today is Just Desserts Day – FREE desserts everywhere in the country and even here in Baltimore. The promotion kicks off the premier of the Top Chef new series Just Desserts tonight at 11 p.m. on Bravo. Where as Top Chef Just Desserts partnered with restaurants and OpenTable around the country for FREE desserts they didn’t partner with Baltimore restaurants........BUT
Are you frustrated, aggravated with the downtown traffic especially with Lombard Street being torn up? Want to bypass the stadium crowds? Morton’s - The Steakhouse is offering an edible and potable solution.
What a great publicity partnership and you are the winners. Top Chef’s new series Just Desserts premieres tomorrow, Wednesday, September 15th. If you make your reservation through OpenTable.com and order an entrée at anyone of over 800 restaurants nationwide you get a FREE dessert to be shared by two. Waiter, bring an extra spoon! 
As the former marketing and public relations director of a Baltimore based spice company, I can pontificate on the wonder and beauty of the world of spices. A little of this and a little of that and you can take that humdrum boneless chicken breasts to new heights of gustation.
Spice companies have already done ¾ of the work for you with the spice blends so no guess work needed.
A handful of media and Visit Baltimore folks gathered today for a sneak peek at the soon-to-open Kona Grill. Why call it a hard hat lunch? Well it is still under construction as the photographs show you at the bottom of the story. Construction has been going every day through the Labor Day holiday so they can make the opening date of Monday, October 4th. This will be the 25th Kona Grill in their group. 
A shout out for school lunch memories to chef friends and acquaintances brought a funny story from Florida’s celebrity chef, Norman Van Aken, known as the godfather of New World Cuisine. New World Cuisine is a blend of Latin, Caribbean, African, Asian and American. Chef Van Aken's acclaimed Norman's - New World Cuisine is located in the Ritz Carlton in Orlando, Florida.From appearing on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations Island Hopping in the Caribbean to being recently named to the James Beard Foundation’s National Advisory Board Chef Van Aken still had time to respond to my request I'm quite grateful.
Read Chef Van Aken's memoir on school lunches: School lunches: world renowned chef Norman Van Aken shares a humorous tale - National food | Examiner.com
Executive Chef Jamie Leeds of Hanks Oyster Bar and Commonwealth Gastro Pub in the nation’s capital spied me at the Share Our Strength breakfast for the seven hundred plus chefs who had gathered for Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to Schools. Leeds, the president of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs organization, remembering a video I created of women chefs answering the question “Why Food” and suggested another topic, “School Lunch Memories.”
Normally I put out one list of cooking classes in the fall and spring but since Examiner.com is in the midst of changing their operating systems I’m afraid it might disappear, hence the individual posts on the classes as their schedules arrive. You can always search my column to find out all the classes under the category “cooking classes.” 
It would be nice if I could keep up with all the fabulous food and wine experiences in the Baltimore and surrounding areas but my pocketbook is too small and my waist is too big. When a foodie friend offered to write a review for my column, including an impressive slide show, I said yes. Let me introduce Kellie Reardon, an avid cook and wine enthusiast and her review:
This is a follow up to my earlier story about the The Dizz opening up in Hampden, called The Dizz at Grandview. They have taken over the rooftop location of The GrandView Restaurant at St Mary’s Roland View Towers at 3838 Roland Avenue, a senior high rise building. The Dizz at GrandView opened last night so the husband was antsy to go check it out. The husband is a Medfield boy, the neighborhood just north of Hampden. When I met him he made it perfectly clear he was from Medfield not Hampden.
Years ago the Baltimore Sun would list cooking and baking classes but it has been years since any media has done a focus on cooking classes. For the past couple of years I’ve made every effort to keep you informed about the assortment of cooking classes from demonstration to hands-on in and around the Baltimore region.
