food

 
You finally score that hard to get dinner reservation, and sit down a a lavish restaurant soaking up the ambiance.  Now the difficult choice is deciding what to order from the numerous mouth watering menu choices.  Why hassle?  Let the head chef decide for you.
This is a growing trend in top restaurants.  Tasting menus which typically [...]

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Your favorite high-end restaurant has perfect ambiance, impeccable service, and the the food is to die for. The problem is you can never get in to some of the best restaurants because they’re almost always booked well in advance.
In Napa CA.,  the French Laundry restaurant is booked sometimes two months in advance, making it frustrating for [...]

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Eating out solo at a fine restaurant is welcomed by some people, but for most it’s a lonely experience.  Many give-up going, dreading the pity stares they receive.  But things are changing.  Many restaurants are catering to solo diners and making them feel welcome.
One example is the Gotham Grill in New York’s Greenwich Village.  There are [...]

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The World Cancer Research Fund just released its findings based on reviewing 7,000 studies related to exercise, diet, weight and cancer.   Nine teams of scientists conducted over five years of study to produce the report.
Dr. Walter Willett, a nutrition expert, says, “We need to think about cancer as the product of many long-term influences, not as something [...]

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Human beings love food and we’ve always had a very complicated relationship with food. Following the non-stop news of worldwide famine, human history has actually been characterized by too little to eat rather than too much. Ever wonder why our appetite is such a powerful driver of our behavior, and more importantly, how can we [...]

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Texas chef Tim Love beat the mighty Masahuru Morimoto on the Food Network’s Iron Chef this spring–and Love credits his victory in large part to the spicy, sophisticated margarita he whipped up on the fly. Full article

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It’s really hard to imagine a chef outside his or her own kitchen. In our mind’s eye, they are tethered, in their whites and clogs, to their restaurants. But nature calls, and when asked to paint the perfect scenario for a picnic outing, from the best locale to the goodies they’d pack in their baskets right [...]

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In November 2004, the house of Mondavi collapsed. The wine world learned that the Robert Mondavi family, the first family of American wine, would no longer own their namesake wine company. Robert Mondavi Corp. had accepted a $1.3 billion bid from the global drinks giant Constellation Brands, dropping the curtain on what had been California’s [...]

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Proust had his madeleines, and he can keep them. My favorite recent recollections include fermented cabbage and triple-cream goat cheese. And pizza. And sformato. And sea urchin roe. Signature dishes, though most often thought of as chefs’ specialties, might also be defined as whatever stands out in the diner’s mind. With that, I offer my [...]

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