Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the San Francisco Chronicle , Regan McMahon reviews Jonah Raskin’s Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California At the end of the fall semester of 2006, Sonoma State University communications Professor and author Jonah Raskin, about to turn 65, decided he needed to get in touch with the earth and explore his rural surroundings. “Before it was too late,” he wr
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Yes, I have had a coffee – and chai – or three here over the years.The excellent subculture site two thousand has this to say:The café’s reputation has fluctuated over the years, “If your thing is being served by tattooed and dreadlocked ferals with attitude, then you’ll love this place” reports one blog site. But like a cranky aunt who can bake a fine ANZAC, locals accept that the frequently cold shoulder with their café latte is worth it when the cakes are sourced from eight different pastry c
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http://www.thestar.com/living/article/651719 With a solar-powered fridge and four wheels, the Local Café puts a green spin on catering Jun 17, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story (1) Pamela Cuthbert Special to the Star She’s a baker, farmers’ market vendor, local foods enthusiast – and, lately, a bus driver. Carole Ferrari is owner of the Local Café, a small catering company that supplies made-from-scratch cookies, cakes and more, prepared in the belly of an old school bus. Her passi
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On the road to sustainable eating
4 beds, 3 baths Size: 2,526 sq ft Lot Size: 10,000 sq ft Added: 07/15/09, Last Updated: 07/18/09 Property Type: Single Family – Detached, Residential MLS Number: 4208551 Tract: Desert Rose As soon as you enter this beautiful 4 bedroom home you get the feeling of welcome home. Warm shades of suede paint, ceramic tile in all the living areas on first floor. Family room has greatroom appeal w/chefs beloved kitchen of Alder cheery stained custom cabinets.
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Free Kentucky Fried Chickens Secret Recipe – Little Known FactsThe mystery behind the Kentucky fried chickens secret recipe has been sought after by many people in the food business for several years now due to its very impressive and alluring taste.Many food and taste experiments have been done to pursue and recreate the famous KFC secret recipe by chefs from large restaurants, companies and other competing fast foods.The use of specialized taste tests enabled the people involved to recreate th
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According to Jon Shook, the motivation for him and Vinny Dotolo, his co-chef at L.A.’s Animal , to do their upcoming pop-up restaurant at Montauk’s Sole East was pretty simple. “Both Vinny and me are from Florida, and we grew up surfing, skateboarding, and hanging out on the beach,” Shook says. “Even though we live in L.A., we never get to the beach
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Oh, Those Animals! Jon Shook Looks Forward to Surfing (and Cooking) in Montauk
The famous Pasadena hotel has just appointed Michael Voltaggio as Chef de Cuisine of the Michelin-starred Dining Room . A contestant on season six of the Bravo series Top Chef , Voltaggio has been wowing diners at The Bazaar by José Andrés at The SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. Before his year-long stint at The Bazaar , Voltaggio was awarded accolades for his cuisine at the Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg.
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The Langham Huntington Snags “Top Chef” for The Dining Room
Apt 1 – Cobble Hill Carroll Gardens Brooklyn Dinner Party Weekly Dinner Event At @ Element Natural healing Arts Where: 518 Henry St Brooklyn How Much: $45 When: 8PM Wine?: BYOB Please call to make a reservation 718 8554850 Hey! Are you not loving this incredible summer weather in NY? Under a fading golden sunset cooled by a gentle summer breeze, my friends and I enjoyed an incredible candlelight dinner party last Friday atop the relaxing roof deck of the Element Natural Healing Arts center in Cobble Hill
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FOOD BLOGS — Finally outing the worst kept secret in food blogging, WSJ reports that Grub Street will be going national this Sunday, turning their Menupages sites in Boston, Philly, LA, and San Fran. [WSJ] REALITY TV — EMD notices that more details have become available on the upcoming show Chef v. City , where chefs Aaron Sanchez and Chris Cosentino challenge local foodies to an Amazing Race of sorts in their respective cities.
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As you may have heard, we’re giving away a copy of Andrew Coe’s Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States . We spoke to the author about what drove him to write about Chinese food and our relationship, as Americans, to the cuisine. The dish that the book gets its title from is hardly still served anywhere in the various Chinatowns of New York.
Last night chef Douglas Rodriguez , owner of the upcoming Flatiron restaurant Nuela appeared as one of the seasoned chefs on Top Chef Masters (more on the full episode later, but yes, this spoiler proved to be true). In the intro, when Tom and Gail talk about how fabulous the chefs are and cameras show these stars expedited and sometimes even cooking on the line, Rodriguez names his growing empire of restaurants and shows a picture of what viewers are meant to believe is Nuela , complete with tables, white cushy chairs, and a wall-sized photograph. Interesting because Nuela, set to open last summer in the old Sapa spot, is now scheduled to debut this September , and as of two days ago, it looked like the photo to the right.
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Top Chef Masters Magic Offers Nuela Sneak Peek
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Grapes Ready to Harvest I travelled to Italy with four friends. The real Italian-American among us had spent months in Tuscany learning the language, studying art, and cooking in the kitchens of famous chefs. My friends and I had each suffered losses that drove us to search for a personal renaissance. We took cooking lessons and tried our hand at drawing. I learned the history of Santa Maria Del Fiore Duomo, designed by Brunelleschi and built over generations with pure faith that its unp
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City Slicker’s Journal #5: Remembering My First Horse
by Linda Holmes With apologies for the NPH-heavy coverage of recent weeks (hey, it’s not my fault he just hosted the Tonys and is making a deal to host the Emmys; I don’t make the news), tonight brings Monkey See Favorite Neil Patrick Harris and his love of magic to Bravo’s Top Chef Masters . So far, Masters has been, as Randy Jackson would put it on American Idol , just all right for me. If you haven’t been watching, it’s a variation on Top Chef where, instead of a large pool
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As longtime Epicuriouseans know, we created Wine.Dine.Donate four years ago, hopefully inspiring you to host dinners for hunger-relief and hosting our own series of intimate parties around the country with celebrity chefs, to raise awareness of–and money for–America’s hunger crisis. From the outset, we partnered with Feeding America, the nation’s largest network of food banks, and remain committed to helping the 25 million that the organization feeds annually. This year is no exception and so on
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Fourth Annual Wine.Dine.Donate Dinner in San Francisco
Enough with celebrities in bikinis boasting about their weight loss (thanks to trainers and personal chefs and paydays dependent on looking good)! I prefer the story of a real Southern woman making it happen through hard work, willpower, and smart advice from the pros at Cooper Wellness Clinic in Dallas. Meet Peg Williams. Peg was a member of my class at Cooper Wellness Program last June. (I wrote about the program for our January 2009 issue.
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Lost: One Tiny Celebrity (or the equivalent thereof)
I saw this story in the Detroit Free Press.Chef Eve Aronoff — chef-owner of eve restaurant in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown district — will compete this fall on Bravo’s “Top Chef: Las Vegas,” the sixth season of the top-rated cable series, the network announced today.[snip]Contestants are not allowed to discuss how they fared in the series, which has already been taped.The season will begin at 9 p.m. Aug. 26, with 17 professional chefs from all over the country
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Ann Arbor Chef to be on Top Chef: Las Vegas
We’ve been bombarded lately with questions about getting married in Maui. Hopefully the following information will help you in making arrangements for your special day!Wedding Planners in MauiThough some do without them, when planning a destination wedding it’s a big relief having help from a local professional. They can help you with all the details making your wedding much less stressful. They also have local knowledge and relationships with vendors, which is priceless. We’ve heard some ho
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Getting Married in Maui, Hawaii
First Alan Richman listed his faves, then we did ours, and now Bruni is getting in on the pizza judging action. Looking only at pizza places that have opened since 2004, he deems Motorino’s Pugliese pie “a masterpiece,” but “got almost no pleasure from the soggy pies at Keste.” [ NY Times ] Meryl Streep and Amy Adams reveal how much they ate during the filming of Julie and Julia in the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal . Apparently Streep “gained 15 pounds,” in her portrayal of Julia Child, while Adams “ate a lot!” Director Nora Ephron made sure everyone ate for real in the scenes
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