April 24, 2008
March 26, 2008
February 25, 2008
Herve This in SF
This quote from Herve This makes me smile ear to ear and makes me think of those special simple meals with the girl that I love.
"Everything was in Chinese, there was no English. Don't ask me what we ate because I have no idea," This said in his lissome Parisian accent. "But I was there with my wife, fully in love, and so it was the best meal of my life."
February 14, 2008
February 13, 2008
January 22, 2008
On the campaign eating trail
Here is a funny article on different candidates eating and hitting the bay area. I especially like reading that Bill Clinton was just at Everett & Jones barbecue in Oakland. I got to go to this place - many people have recommended it. And they even have their own (through a contract brewery) Saucey Sistah Ale. Wonder if Bill had some :-)
January 18, 2008
Cheese, steaks, and beer
What a fun bet. Too bad for the Green Bay Mayor that he won't get to taste the excellent Brooklyn Brewery beer and Peter Lugar steaks :-)
December 19, 2007
December 12, 2007
Foodie Bytes
Foodie Bytes is a new site I stumbled upon this morning. I like the idea. I have thought about this before - it is nice to find what you are looking for at that moment or in a particular area. Not sure I love the interface to the information yet but I am happy that someone is trying it. As far as I can tell it is a pretty manual process for them to get the menus in there - i don't think they are culling it from online. I will try and use this a few times and give an update.
Oh and they have a blog too.
In other news The Girl and I are going to Coi on friday - I am very excited. Time to re-read all those articles from the chef - Daniel Patterson - that were on chez pim.
October 29, 2007
ghost chile
Another REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY R E A L L Y hot pepper I want to try - just a little bit...
(image from aol.com)
September 17, 2007
September 12, 2007
July 13, 2007
July 12, 2007
Is that cardboard I taste?
In the "oh wow that is rather gross" category of news today - yahoo news puts out an article about a Beijing steamed bun place that supposedly was selling buns with 60% cardboard inside. At least they didn't decide to use people.
July 06, 2007
Getting Back to Eater
Just cause i am on a different coast, doesn't mean i can't read eater every day. This morning is the first time i have looked in a long while. Ah the food gossip:
Sietsema goes out on a limb and names Il Brigante "the city's most perfect evocation of the true Naples style..." Damn I want to try!
Oh and Sam from Top Chef 2 (yeah the hot one) is breaking up with the owners of his first restaurant - Spitzer's Corner. Hope he falls on a good place next - he seemed like he could really take off.
June 25, 2007
Bring that dog out to drink
Not a huge list but for my ny readers it is rather fun to bring your dog to places and relax with a drink.
BYO Dog - outdoor drinking where dogs are welcome
(pic from my friend spike)
June 14, 2007
Good article on state of farmed fish and seafood
I have started getting the SF Chronicle wednesday through sunday. The big ones for me are food on wednesday and wine (beer!) on friday. I could read it online but its nice to have a paper on the bus and on the weekend in the garden.
Well presented article on where we are at with farmed fish and seafood. I didn't know salmon was as bad as it is. I will try and not order it as much.
Check it out - Domestic farmed fish go under the microscope
November 08, 2006
October 04, 2006
Pizza my love
Now that I have my categories showing up on the side bar I am going back and looking at some of my old ramblings. This is the funny ForkAndPen quote of the day:
"Turning down free pizza is like saying no to world peace (at least in my mind)."
September 27, 2006
Let us learn and talk about Spinach
The whole media frenzy over spinach has made me mad. It is absolutly horrible that someone died from e-coli but before going on a witch hunt and putting ALL spinach farmers out of business we have to step back and think. I was looking for a good piece about this and finally found one (I am behind the times as it has been on the web for awhile and pim featured it a few days ago - but hey this stuff is important.
June 27, 2006
June 23, 2006
June 16, 2006
June 15, 2006
June 09, 2006
Geno's owner drinks stupid juice
English only at Philly cheesesteak joint
"I certainly wouldn't want a national audience to think it represented all of the wonderful cheesesteak makers in the whole city," said Meryl Levitz, president and chief executive of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. "This isn't representative of the Philadelphia attitude."
Competitors are seizing on the controversy.
Tony Luke's issued a statement saying it welcomes all customers "whether or not they speak a `wit' of English."
And a manager at Pat's, Kathy Smith, said of Geno's English-only policy: "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. I'd rather listen to the Spanish than the foul language of the college students."
June 06, 2006
Thanks Andrea Strong!
Andrea listened to me and checked out Knife + Fork. I'm not a friend of the chef's just wanted everyone to enjoy the place as much as I did. No publicty fee for me - just some free thyme panacotta please.
Frome Andrea Strong's : the strong buzz
Knife and Fork
About three weeks ago I got an email from a reader telling me about this little place in the East Village called Knife and Fork. He said it was great, that the chef was a friend and that he was trying to drum up some word of mouth for them. I wrote back thanking him for the tip and made a mental note to check it out. (I have a lot of mental notes. I seem to lose track of them. I’ll have to make a mental note to be more diligent about following through on them.) Anyway, about a week later, I read about Knife and Fork on Daily Candy. Then the next day, a publicist emailed me about it as well. Hmmm. Well, word on the street is great and while I have not been yet here are the juicy details:
The Chef: The chef/owner Damien Brassel is from Ireland. He’s 30. Apparently by the time he was 20, he was the head chef at Peacock Alley, a Michelin star restaurant in Dublin. Somebody is an overachiever. By the time I was twenty my goal was to wake up in time for lunch. Anyway, Damien has worked and staged at a number of one and two-Michelin star restaurants in Europe and Australia, including Peacock Alley and Guibaud in Dublin, Pierre Kaufman’s La Tante Claire, Fisk in Copenhagen with Nicoli Kirk, and Tetsuya Wakuda’s Tetsuya in Sydney. In New York, since 2004, he worked at Bobby Flay’s restaurants and with Patricia Yeo at Sapa.
The Space: Sweet, breezy, and casually rustic, the right vibe for the gently price fare. You can have yourself a 6-course tasting menu for $45.
Wine: The list put together by Michelin star sommelier Frederic Grappe of Orrery in London.
The Food: The food is called modern European in press materials, which add: “Damien has been influenced by modern cooking techniques used by Pierre Gagnaire, Heston Blumenthal and Marc Veyrat.” But Knife and Fork is not meant not as a stage for experimentation. This is a neighborhood restaurant—an ambitious one but not in the Fat Duck vein. Signatures include warm goat cheese with polenta and asparagus ($11), torchon of foie gras with saffron poached pineapple ($14), curry dusted skate with lobster infused reduction and a citrus, fennel and mixed herb salad ($20), and lavender rubbed duck breast with caramelized parsnips and red onion marmalade ($22). For brunch, there’s French toast “egg in a hole” with crispy bacon ($9), and seared polenta with pancetta, spinach and poached eggs with coriander hollandaise ($10). Damien is also working on a bar menu to be introduced in the next two weeks, including octopus and duck tongues with fresh marjoram.
Logistics: Knife and Fork is open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday and brunch Saturday & Sunday. Knife and Fork is located at 108 East 4th Street, 212-228-4885.
June 01, 2006
May 29, 2006
Jellied Tomato Refresher
A friend sent me this the other day - the comments are the best part. I LOVE the candles next to the inspiration soup - HA!
Weight watchers recipe cards (circa 1974)
January 17, 2006
Wear your food
The folks at tastingmenu.com always write great food adventures and share with the world amazing (and free) tasting menu cookbooks that totally rock. And now they are selling shirts. Go buy one they are fun and will look great. I think mine will be the lemon. I also like the phrase "Eating is one of my favorite three biological need" and "I'll cook, you eat."
December 15, 2005
August 12, 2005
food flickr fun
I am loving flickr these days:
Take a look at mr hotdog
and then at the hotdog tag
odd i didn't think i was in the mood for a hotdog.
July 11, 2005
Now that is a good idea
When a polished chef like Waldy (Beacon) Malouf sets out to reinvent the slice joint, he doesn’t stop at creatively topped pizzas. “I wanted to evolve the condiment counter, too,” he says. So where you’d normally find a crusty old sugar shaker filled with garlic powder, at Waldy’s Wood Fired Pizza & Penne, you get fresh herbs sprouting forth from a window-box-size planter. Customers wielding garden clippers snip away at fragrant basil, oregano, rosemary, and thyme. So far, basil is hands-down the favorite accoutrement. “Everyone I know is growing basil for me in their back gardens and in their windows,” says Malouf. “That’s how we’ve been replenishing the supply.”
800 Sixth Ave., nr. 27th St.; 212-213-5042. (via newyorkmetro.com)
June 07, 2005
Gordon Ramsay ate my homework
Gordon Ramsay's new show on fox might be a fake (via thefoodsection.com) but if you ask me it really doesn't matter. Watch it. The restaurant could be a fake gauntlet but it's still kicking the ass of the contestants. And it's just as ridiculous as most reality shows but hey it's fun to watch. So real or fake I am hooked.
May 12, 2005
April 19, 2005
New Blog
I found this cool new blog (from Josh at thefoodsection.com of course) - Nordljus - this girl can bake !
April 11, 2005
David Eyre's Pancake
Everyone that reads thefoodsection.com will be making these bad boys this coming weekend - including me - but i might breakdown and do it somtime this week for dinner - what can I say it looks that good.
April 05, 2005
March 25, 2005
Harvest Schedule
I have been looking for this for awhile - just didn't know what to call it - Harvest Schedule - an example
March 07, 2005
Best of NY 2005
So i got a confession - i love reading New York Metro. I feel its a guilty pleasure but there lists keep me interested. And I love how they come out with the best of 2005 in march. Enjoy trying some new places - I know I will.
NYMetro Best Food 2005
February 22, 2005
Independent Food Festival & Awards
I just love this idea - maybe next year I can be a judge (..best baked goods to bribe Hillel to let me on to the jury...)
February 10, 2005
Hmmm this paper is divine
Ok so some people are just going to think this is nuts but I just love it. The New York Times just did an article about HOMARO CANTU'S creative food. He uses editable paper and food ink to print out dishes in his tasting menu. But he isn't stopping there - he wants to use an ion gun to make a dish levitate. AND he is working on all the patents to this cool stuff too.
Regardless of how you feel about his food, this is exciting. It is a melding of technology and food which really are ripe for mixing. One day maybe I can dowload a tasting menu that a chef has prepared. If you think this is stupid then fine, but the creativity can not be denied.
February 02, 2005
January 31, 2005
Napkins are fun
Another wonderfully ingenious collection:
NAPKINS! (via thefoodsection.com )
Korea :
December 25, 2004
December 16, 2004
s l n y awards
here represented in its entirety is the s l n y yearly awards. I love love slny and hope its ok that I copy the awards here. If you don't understand what is going on, don't worry, few are worthy.
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the s l n y awards (2004)
the pretentious* little awards show
courtesy of shelovesny.com
pre-ceremony pampering available for all of our awardees at the
slny microdermabrasion and cupping suite
at http://www.shelovesny.com/slny.htm
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THE NEW BLACK AWARDS
let’s get retarded it started, matty, with TNB of ’04:
na
5 ninth
mas
jamba juice
THE JIGGA WHAT & R KELLY ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR
presented dually to the most entertaining foes of ’04:
rocco di & big daddy chodorowbucks
‘04 PARIS HILTON ENTOURAGE HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS
given to those venues which were most menacing to their neighborhoods
hotel gansevoort
vento/level v
crobar
THE RNC CONVENTION PRIZE
awarded to a venue idea that was, retrospectively, a colossal mistake:
time warner center
THE COLIN FARRELL MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING CHARACTER
fka THE OOPS PRIZE, awarded to a single address claiming most venues:
maritime hotel (hiro/la bottega/cabanas/matsuri/ono sake bar)
THE VOTE OR DIE STATUE
recognizing an ego maniacal effort that fell way short in ’04:
hotel on rivington
THE STAR REYNOLDS SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORED BY THE VIEW™
for venues so absurd that they must be operating in a parallel universe
kos
megu
THE SIMPSON FAMILY FAMOUS IN ’04 AWARD (tie)
awarded to a stunning venue w/ the least substance to back it in ‘04:
ono
nooch
THE JASON ALEXANDER MEDAL
or THE TODD ANDREW MEISTER PRIZE, to the most briefly open venue
social club
THE DAILY DANY SEAL OF SWEETNESS
or THE PAVIA PRIZE, to the bar most destined to be touted by the candy:
turks & frogs
THE BUNGALOW PRIZE
or THE AMY SACCO AWARD, matty, given to bungalow 8 once yearly:
bungalow 8
THE NEW BLACKTORATE (honorary degree) (tie)
lifetime achievement in black award; presented to a closed venue:
grange hall
lutece
&
THE TWO RINGS, 5:30 OR 11 AWARD (tie)
the resy prize, matty:
spice market
per se
happy new year, matty, now go and make sure she has a good one
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December 14, 2004
Anthony Bourdain Interview
I like Anthony Bourdain more and more all the time. I was lucky enough to hang out with him once and have a few beers. He is laid-back and pretty damn smart. Here is a small interview with him courtesy of Bruce Cole
December 06, 2004
September 30, 2004
Welcome to Manhattan
"I just moved to the East Coast from the Bay Area. Everbody tells me just how much I'm gonna love Manhattan! So I thought I'd join the blogger revolution and start blogging away so that a year down the line I can see for myself how much I've fallen in love with Manhattan..."
A new blog for all you new york food blog addicts like myself:
September 29, 2004
PIE
I love pie - apple, cherry, burger(?) ... and slowly key lime pie is eeking towards the top of my most coveted pie list.
Then why I haven't I had a steve's authentic key lime pie yet??
Good question - i feel an adventure coming on.
September 27, 2004
WOW that is a big shroom
"Found in the Malheur national forest in Oregon, that fungus covers 890 hectares (2,200 acres) - making it the largest living organism ever discovered."
September 07, 2004
Why I want to be a food writer and not pay for meals
With our meal we chose a bottle of Mexican Petite Sirah ($210), from Monte Xanic in Baja California. Afterward, our waiter brought around a tray of five desserts. We loved the coconut flan crusted with lots of caramelized coconut and sugar, and a creamy chocolate cake made with almond paste.
July 28, 2004
Stone Barns in the NY Times
Stone Barns that bastion of freshness garners three stars from the New York Times. I know I should have went sooner - now its going to be packed!
July 13, 2004
July 07, 2004
Florence
When you have some time check out Samin Nosrat on thefoodsection.com.
Her articles made me sit and question why oh why have I never been to Italy.
** The above pronoun has been edited to match Samin's proper sex. Thanks Leila **
July 01, 2004
May 30, 2004
May 25, 2004
Movable Feast
Josh over at thefoodsection.com has given over his blog this week to a guest editor. She will be writting about the local fare of Washington D.C.
What a good idea!
April 11, 2004
April 03, 2004
More food photo blogs
After I posted a few days ago about the guy who took pictures of everything he ate, I found this guy - Cypher's food photos. He has been taking pictures of everything he eats for like two years - and has a pretty substantial community of people that leave comments all the time. Go Cypher!
And lets not forget the awesome Pasta Log - Stefano is great. Just load up the archive page and watch the pasta fall in front of you. And check out the faq too it has grown and changed over time.
April 02, 2004
Breakfast photos
Breakfast is the most interesting meal if you ask me. Its the morning, your tired, and you are ready for some food. People take it for granted all the time. Here are some great breakfast pictures.
March 31, 2004
March 18, 2004
February 01, 2004
tastingmenu.com
Each day I always check a few food sits for updates. thefoodsection.com is one of them, another is NYC eats.
I just found another tastingmenu.com . Hillel is the one behind the site and boy does he go to a lot of restaurants and writes about them all. Honest and thorough reporting - what else do you need.
check out the FAQ
the tastingmenu.com philosophy
and of course the restaurant listings page