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November 18, 2011
Jacques Pépin Reveals His Thanksgiving Turkey Secrets: Interview Part 2
Photo courtesy Jacques PépinJacques Pépin steams his Thanksgiving turkey, meaning you should, tooYesterday we chatted with Jacques Pepin about his new book, Essential Pepin, an impressive collection of more than 700 of his favorite recipes. Today, he explains why chefs must master technique ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Jacques Pépin on Writing Essential Pepin and What Advice He Gives to Aspiring Chefs
Photo courtesy Jacques PépinJacques Pépin's motto: Cook because you love it.Simply put, Jacques Pépin is a culinary living legend. Having begun his career at age 13, he worked in such esteemed restaurants as the Plaza-Athénée in Paris and Le Pavillion in New York before heading up resear ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
The Kitchn Looks at Judith Jones' Kitchen
Random HouseShe might be one of the most important people in the cookbook publishing world, but Judith Jones, the editor who championed Julia Child way back when, has a surprisingly normal New York City kitchen. The Kitchn takes a tour today of her Upper East Side apartment, which is refresh ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Julia Child Now Available on iPad; Hunger Costs the U.S. Billions Annually
The e-book version of Julia Child's seminal Mastering the Art of French Cooking was released for the iPad this week. [NY Times] The cost of hunger in the U.S. was $167.5 billion last year, due in large part to the recession and slow recovery. [BusinessWeek] Cheese geeks still love talking about af ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2011
Tomorrow: New York City's 17 Greatest Chefs
Ever seen this motor scooter around town before? Will its rider be chosen to be among our top 17 chefs in the city? There comes a time when we must evaluate the output of the city's greatest chefs. Who had the most effect upon the culinary zeitgeist? Who spun off the best cooking and reality shows ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Our 10 Best Hotel Restaurants
Robert SietsemaHead to the Trilby for a calm brunch and nosh on these poached eggs and corned beef hashIn recent years, hotel restaurants have gone from being spots for humdrum steak dinners to some of the most exciting dining destinations around, enticing locals as well as guests to pull up ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Alex Alejandro of El Parador Café Explains the Parallels Between Using Ramps and Having a Good Sex Life
Robert SietsemaHead to the Trilby for a calm brunch and nosh on these poached eggs and corned beef hashIn recent years, hotel restaurants have gone from being spots for humdrum steak dinners to some of the most exciting dining destinations around, enticing locals as well as guests to pull up ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Paul Bocuse Named 'Chef of the Century'
Paul BocuseThe Culinary Institute of American has named Paul Bocuse, a/k/a the father of nouvelle cuisine, the "chef of the century."
Dining
March 23, 2011
Goat Town Frenches Us in the East Village
Inspired by its time in Brooklyn, the bistro returns to Manhattan
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Out With the Old and In With the New: Nicolas Cantrel Dishes on Why Bagatelle Shuttered and is Now Beaumarchais
Photo courtesy Nicolas Cantrel For some people, Sunday afternoon in the Meatpacking district means one thing: a raucously boozy brunch (complete with dancing on the banquettes) at Bagatelle (if you've never been, here's a recap). So it might come as a surprise that the restaurant quietly shu ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
L'Ecole to Create a Bar Menu, Free Drinks for FitR Readers
hellonewyorkcity.comL'Ecole, the restaurant of the French Culinary Institute, is launching a bar menu starting today, serving up French-inspired classics like a Gruyère bacon burger with bone marrow béarnaise, a charcuterie plate, and cavatelli with rock shrimp. But better yet ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Savoy Will Start Serving a Ton of Cassoulet Next Week
On the heels of last weekend's Cassoulet Cook-Off comes the welcome news that more is on the way, courtesy of Savoy.
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January 14, 2011
Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries
Delmonico's as it looks today. The columns on either side of the door are said to come from Pompeii.The modern restaurant as we know it was invented in 1831 south of Wall Street at Delmonico's, based on Swiss and French models. The previous sort of establishment was usually a hotel dining roo ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Nils Noren Isn't Actually Leaving the French Culinary Institute
BravoAfter our post yesterday on the apparent departure of Nils Noren from his post as the French Culinary Institute's Vice President of Culinary and Pastry Arts, we received the following update from the school's reps:
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December 1, 2010
Dorie Greenspan Discusses Around My French Table and Why She Got Fired From Her Early Jobs
Alan RichardsonBe like Dorie Greenspan and fear not if you fuss with frosting. Dorie Greenspan is the ultimate baking guru, having written classics like Baking: From My Home to Yours and Paris Sweets. And now she shows readers her savory side with her new cookbook, Around My French Table. S ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
The French Culinary Institute Expands to California - and May Go International
Looks like the Le Fooding organizers weren't the only ones with bi-coastal domination on their minds: the International Culinary Center - better known in these parts as the French Culinary Institute - is expanding to California.
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September 27, 2010
What's Happening This Week: Beery Dinners, Bouillabaisse Banter
As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Victory Beer Dinner Colicchio & Sons Tuesday, September 28t at 7:30 p.m. In honor of NYC Craft Beer Week, Colicchio & Sons will host a beery pairing dinner with Dow ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Where Should I Go for an Old-Fashioned French Meal That's Not Too Expensive?
Robert Tréboux, owner of Le Veau D'or Welcome to this week's installment of Ask the Critics. Rob wrote in to ask: Where can I get an old-fashioned French meal without it costing me an arm and a leg? Preferably in Manhattan, but I'm willing to travel.
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May 14, 2010
The Culinary Historians of New York Show the Big Apple What It's Biting
Eighteenth-century fish, as portrayed by Luis Melendez.Gourmands looking to bone up on their food history should check out the Culinary Historians of New York, a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 with the aim of furthering people's knowledge about the historical and sociological signific ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Colicchio, Boulud, White, Humm Big Winners in Last Night's Beard Awards
Pomp, circumstance, product placement, and varying levels of inebriation all converged at Avery Fisher Hall last night for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Many white men were awarded large gold pendants that dangled from green sashes. It was a particularly good night for New York, wit ... More >>
Music
May 4, 2010
The Rent Parties of 2010
Now on the Upper West Side and featuring French cuisine, but the jazz-loving intimacy remains
Blogs
March 17, 2010
There's Going to be Another Julia Child Book
Time to stir up more publishing profits!Julie Child is set to get some more love on the printed page: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has just announced it will publish As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto on Dec. 1. As the Times reports, the book will comprise more than a d ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
French It Up This Weekend: Champagne and Cassoulet to Warm and Uplift You
Get chaud with cassoulet.Savoy will host its second Annual Cassoulet Feast this Saturday. Chefs from six different restaurants -- Ryan Tate and Peter Hoffman of Savoy, Marc Meyer of Cookshop, Galen Zamarra of Mas (Farmhouse), Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Cyril Renaud of Bar Breton, and ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
Kraft Makes Hostile Bid for Cadbury; DNA Barcode Finds Bait & Switch in Fish Restaurants
Restaurateur Nello Balan is being accused of stealing staffers' tips, more than $100,000's worth a year. Ex-employees claim their tips went to Balan's daughter, his driver, and managers. Balan responded saying it was "totally false." [NY Post] Kraft Foods has started making its hostile bid t ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Readers' Picks for Best Cookbooks
Last Friday, we brought you our picks for the 10 best cookbooks of all time. Commenters were unusually mum on pointing out mistakes, but several of you wrote in or e-mailed us to add these contenders to the list: The Way To Cook by Julia Child (Knopf, 1989) Simple French Food, The French Menu Cook ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
A New Food Network On the Way; Julia Child Contemporary Charlotte Snyder Turgeon Dies
Scripps Networks has plans to launch a cooking-focused TV channel next year, called the Cooking Channel, that will replace Fine Living. The company has a growing appetite for food programming following a joint venture to bring the Food Network to Europe. [Wall Street Journal] New Jersey can ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2009
Judith Jones on Cooking for One
Christopher HirsheimerThe summary of Judith Jones' life's work so far is enough to make your head spin. She is currently senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, which she joined in 1957. Before that, she had worked for Doubleday in New York and Paris, where she accomplished littl ... More >>
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September 17, 2009
The French Not So Keen on Julia Child
Associated Press, 1978 In France, Julie and Julia was released yesterday. But it turns out that most French people have never heard of Julia Child--The Art of French Cooking was never translated into French--and those who have are decidedly lukewarm on the subject. Julie Andrieu, a cookbook ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
Chatting with Mathieu Palombino on the New Motorino, Pizza Fetishes, and Classic French Food
Mathieu PalombinoBelgian-born chef Mathieu Palombino's culinary roots are in classic French cuisine. He was the chef de cuisine at BLT Fish when the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star, and three stars in the New York Times. But he harbored a secret passion for Neapolitan pizza, and left f ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
'Top Chef': When the Merde Hits the Fan
Bravo TVOh, those French and their talent for deadpan drama. What we Americans express with operatic levels of emotion, the Gauls communicate with a sniff, a raised eyebrow, an indifferent shrug. That may be why the decision to have a panel of intractably French chefs judge last night's gusta ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
The Blogroll Gazette: Instant Starbucks, Shitshows & a Swedish Meatball Truck
This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily posted Sandra Lee's response to Anthony Bourdain's calling her "pure evil": "He needs to have a cocktail and lighten up." Serious Eats pitted Starbucks' new line of instant coffee packets against Nescafe. The result? Instant Starbucks "really isn't bad." Mi ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Food Corps Fear Nationwide Sugar Shortage; French Cooking Not Quite Over
Could the U.S. run out of sugar? Yes, say major food corps, if the government doesn't ease import tariffs. Kraft, General Mills, Krispy Kreme, Hershey, and Mars have together written a letter to the Agriculture Department demanding more tariff-free sugar be allowed. [Wall Street Journal] How ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
On Bookshelves, Both On and Offline, A Good Dose of Julia
mellemusic/flickr At least one good thing has come out of the ridiculous media frenzy surrounding the release of the film Julie & Julia: a renewed interest in Julia Child's brilliant written works. Eat Me Daily noticed that Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 is currently t ... More >>
Film
August 4, 2009
In Praise of the Julia Half of Julie & Julia
mellemusic/flickr At least one good thing has come out of the ridiculous media frenzy surrounding the release of the film Julie & Julia: a renewed interest in Julia Child's brilliant written works. Eat Me Daily noticed that Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 is currently t ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Television Shows
A few afternoons ago I had the pleasure of hearing Jacques Pepin discourse on his friendship with Julia Child, whom he met in 1960. He recalled their opportunity to work together on a show called Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, created in 1999 in Boston and featuring both of them in the kitc ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Chatting With...Nils Noren, Contestant on Top Chef Masters Tonight
Tonight, Nils Noren will compete on Top Chef Masters against Michael Chiarello (Bottega Restaurant), Rick Moonen (RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay), and Lachlan McKinnon Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine). Noren, who cheffed at Aquavit for 10 years, and is now the vice president of culinary and pastry arts ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009
Deadlier Than the Male
Tonight, Nils Noren will compete on Top Chef Masters against Michael Chiarello (Bottega Restaurant), Rick Moonen (RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay), and Lachlan McKinnon Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine). Noren, who cheffed at Aquavit for 10 years, and is now the vice president of culinary and pastry arts ... More >>
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December 12, 2008
Taste Test -- Claude's Patisserie
Tonight, Nils Noren will compete on Top Chef Masters against Michael Chiarello (Bottega Restaurant), Rick Moonen (RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay), and Lachlan McKinnon Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine). Noren, who cheffed at Aquavit for 10 years, and is now the vice president of culinary and pastry arts ... More >>
Dining
November 5, 2008
High on the Hog at No. 7
Chef with a Vongerichten résumé is atop the C train in Fort Greene
Blogs
July 16, 2008
'Disaffected' Snail Hunters Cause Shortage
Chef with a Vongerichten résumé is atop the C train in Fort Greene
Dining
March 11, 2008
Old-School French Restaurants Somehow Still Survive in Midtown
Chef with a Vongerichten résumé is atop the C train in Fort Greene
Dining
January 8, 2008
Against All Odds, French Bistros Alive and Kicking
Peasants are we
Dining
September 26, 2006
Change of Course
The Pastry King spins off a Mediterranean Rim bistro on Mott
Dining
March 8, 2005
Goodbye, Columbus
Takayama tweaks it on the 4th floor of Time Warner Center
Art
July 27, 2004
The Main Course
Food studies is fast becoming a serious pursuit
Dining
March 4, 2003
La Vraie Bouillabaisse
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