CMN Video: Food Blogger Playdate: Steak Tasting

Part 2 of our latest Food Blogger Play Date, where we do a blind tasting of Artisanal steaks from Carrie Oliver of www.oliverranch.com. Anu Karwa from Swirl Events brings along some great wines to pair with the beef.

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Originally Published April 2009

We join Chef Lidia Bastianich at the NY Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden as she demonstrates some great recipes using fresh garden herbs and vegetables. Here she makes a savory crostata filled with rice, zucchini & ricotta cheese.

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CMN Video: Flavors of Chile at Centrico

Chef Mark and Jennifer attend a luncheon at Chef Aaron Sanchez’s Centrico Restaurant made with products from Chile: Merken spice, carica, myrtle berries, avocado oil, pisco, and more.

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CMN Video: Chef Eric Lee’s Salmon Potato Canapés

Chef Eric Lee from Onyx Restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia shows us how he prepares Salmon Potato Canapes for the Savour Food & Wine Festival.

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CMN Video: Chef Trevor Simms Shellfish Bowl

Chef Trevor Simms of the 44 North Restaurant at the Marriott Harbourfront Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia shows us his signature 44 North Shellfish Bowl, which showcases the local lobster and Digby Scallops.

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CMN Video: Hiltl Vegetarian Restaurant, Zurich

Who says vegetarian food can’t be sexy? We visit Europe’s oldest vegetarian restaurant (founded in 1898), which has one of the busiest — and cleanest — kitchens we’ve ever seen. Managing Director Peter Vauthier gave us full access to the operation, from kitchen to dining room…to secret hidden room.

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CMN Video: Christmas Time in Zurich

Jennifer and Chef Mark wander around the Christmas Markets in Zurich, Switzerland, and discover a couple holiday treats that are everywhere this time of year: Lángos and Glühwein.

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CMN Video: Colonial Cooking

We learn how Colonists in 18th Century Virginia prepared foods in a Hearth-fired kitchen. Frank Clark, Supervisor of Historic Foodways at Colonial Williamsburg, shows us around the kitchen of the Peyton Randolph House.

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Video: A Day at El Bulli Book Launch

We attended a party hosted by publisher Phaidon at Thomas Keller’s Per Se Restaurant to honor Chef Ferran Adria on the publication of “A Day at El Bulli“, a 500 page exploration of the art of cuisine at his temple of gastronomy. The event drew a crowd of America’s culinary elite, who sipped Cava and sampled Per Se’s best hors d’oeuvres. Among the attendees were many of America’s top chefs, who were thrilled to support Chef Adria. (see if you can spot them all!)

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Fork in the Road – Per Se

A quick update from the book release party for Chef Ferran Adria’s book “A Day at El Bulli“, published by Phaidon. The party was at Chef Thomas Keller’s Per Se in New York City, where many of the culinary stars showed up to wish Chef Adria well. Fret not for the low quality. We’ll have full video coverage of the event, including Chef Mark’s interview with Chef Adria, in a day or two.

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Jennifer and Chef Mark go on a “playdate” with a group of other food bloggers after the Martha Stewart Show Blogger day, and join the staff of Everyday Food Magazine to play in the test kitchen for the afternoon. Matt Armendariz from www.mattbites.com makes his grandmother’s albondigas soup.

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With one of the most colorful histories of any town in the USA, Williamsburg, Virginia and the Tidewater region have lovingly restored many of their historic houses and welcomed people to experience a taste of the past. We spent the weekend in the area, exploring Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, and we discovered many of the restaurants in the area, from colonial taverns to seafood restaurants and French bistros. Here, Jennifer joins me as we discuss what we’ve seen and speak with Maxine Williams, proprietor of the Old Chickahominy House, renowned for its special way of making biscuits.

Theme Song: “Byron’s Got The Time”, by Family Groove Company, from the Podsafe Music Network.

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The conclusion of our 3 part series. Chef Rick Bayless, of Chicago’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo speaks at the NY Times Travel Show. He finishes his Shrimp in Green Mole Sauce, and teaches us about chayote.

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Chef Rick Bayless, of Chicago’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo speaks at the NY Times Travel Show. He demonstrates how to make a Green Mole Sauce, and explains many of the unique Mexican ingredients that go into it. On Part 3 he finishes the dish, using the mole with Shrimp.

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Chef Rick Bayless, of Chicago’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo speaks at the NY Times Travel Show, sharing his epiphanies about Mexican cooking as a young man, and his love of the markets in Mexico City. On parts 2 and 3, coming soon, Chef Bayless cooks for us!

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Culinary Roundtable #21 (Video): Chef Thomas Keller Keynote, Part 3

The final installment of our 3 part series: Chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry and Per Se gives the keynote address at the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum at the NY International Restaurant Show. He tells his story, and focuses on the element of teamwork that is at the core of his extraordinary success in the restaurant business.

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Culinary Roundtable #20 (Video): Chef Thomas Keller Keynote, Part 2

Chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry and Per Se gives the keynote address at the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum at the NY International Restaurant Show. He tells his story, and focuses on the element of teamwork that is at the core of his extraordinary success in the restaurant business.

Part 3 coming soon.

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Culinary Roundtable #19 (Video): Chef Thomas Keller Keynote, Part 1

Chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry and Per Se gives the keynote address at the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum at the NY International Restaurant Show. He tells his story, and focuses on the element of teamwork that is at the core of his extraordinary success in the restaurant business.

Parts 2 and 3 coming soon.

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Video – Fork in The Road Venice

Jennifer and Mark stroll through the canals and sidepaths of Venice, discovering the beauty and romance of the city (and Mark learns some essentials of Venetian building names)

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Culinary Roundtable #18: Lower East Side Food Tour

It’s a Lower East Side Food Tour, celebrating the mixed heritage of this unique New York neighborhood, which has been home to many immigrant populations, and which continues to share it’s simple food delights. Chef Mark from ReMARKable Palate, Jennifer Iannolo from Food Philosophy and Don Genova from All You Can Eat sit on a stoop on Orchard St next to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and enjoy scoops from the Laboratorio del Gelato while chatting about the chow to be found here.

Music: “Byron’s Got the Time” by Family Groove Company. Find it on the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com

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