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A Tour of Childhood Flavors, Then a Michelin Star

It was disconcerting to hear one of the top chefs in the Bay Area squeal like a child over a package of Filipino cheese cupcakes. But squeal Jennie Lorenzo did. The chef Jennie Lorenzo, who grew up in Manila, with Filipino dishes at Tribu Grill in San ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Marco Pierre White,  Gordon Ramsay

After the Bird, Everything Else Is Secondary

YOU know how it is with family during the holidays. One smart remark and someone leaves the table in tears. Which do you enjoy more on Thanksgiving, the turkey or the side dishes? It wasn’t quite that dramatic at a recent Dining section staff meeting, ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Norman Rockwell

What the Last Meal Taught Him

LOCAL The chef Thomas Keller in his garden greenhouse in California. He had only recently come to know Ed Keller, a towering former Marine drill sergeant who left his family when Thomas Keller, the youngest of five boys, was just 5 years old. When ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Keller,  Armani,  Per Se

When the Problems Come Home to Roost

THE Bay Area is unmatched in its embrace of the urban backyard chicken trend. But raising chickens, which promises delicious, untainted eggs and instant membership in the local food movement, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sharon Lane with one of ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Alice Waters

Closing the Book on Gourmet

ONE of the first things Ruth Reichl did after telling her staff on Monday that Condé Nast had closed Gourmet was to lock up the library with its landmark collection of 70 years of cookbooks and typewritten recipes. “That’s not going to disappear,” she ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Gourmet Magazine,  Ruth Reichl,  New York Public Library,  James Beard,  Alice Waters

Schools’ Toughest Test: Cooking

ON a recent Monday afternoon in the back of a middle school kitchen in Queens, it sounded as if a deal was going down. WELL EQUIPPED Deli sandwiches, a recent innovation, are popular with students, but the school also cooks some dishes from scratch. ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: General Motors

Take Web, add cooks, enjoy!

Then again, things move fast on the Internet. Wikia's recipe section, begun in 2005, has 40,000 recipes. As the digital age seeps into the kitchen, it's time to reconsider whether too many cooks spoil the broth. Crowd-sourcing recipes -- corralling ...

From KIM SEVERSON THE NEW YORK TIMES, Salt Lake Tribune,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Jimmy Wales

E-Kitchens Can Get Crowded

AS the digital age seeps into the kitchen, it’s time to reconsider whether too many cooks spoil the broth. CYBERSLAW Jennifer Hesss pork burger with red cabbage and fennel won a contest on Food52.com. Jennifer Hess's smoky pork burger with fennel and ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Jimmy Wales

The Fickle Palate

MEMORIES of dinner parties past flooded in for many cooks when they heard that Sheila Lukins, the Manhattan caterer whose food most symbolizes 1980s entertaining, died of cancer last week. When Ms. Lukins’s “Silver Palate Cookbook” came out in 1982, ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  5 Sep 2009

Restaurant Preview Issue: For a Perfectionist Chef, a New Spot and a New Challenge

IT is not uncommon for Missy Robbins to lie awake in her West Village apartment until 4 a.m., thinking about how to perfect a dish another chef might have settled for or simply shelved entirely. Would a sauce of cooked egg yolk and pecorino punch up ...

From KIM SEVERSON, The New York Times,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Georgetown University,  Time Warner Inc.,  David Rockwell,  In Style

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