tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47042750475926341942026-01-04T00:01:44.969-05:00Random musings about most things food.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406677712176009528noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704275047592634194.post-25031331165616284092014-04-02T20:27:00.001-04:002014-04-02T20:33:29.064-04:00

Proof Of The Pudding Chef  Launches Organic Cooking Showcase In the spirit of celebrating spring, Proof of the Pudding’s Chef Ron Jenkins will be hosting a live action pop- up tent at Freedom Farmers Market at the Carter Center April 5 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Jenkins’ menu will incorporate products from the booths at the market, showing that food can be both

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New Year's is barely a month away and I'm already finding myself cheating on those promises I made (to myself). Cheating---not dropping---my resolve to maintain the weight loss I accomplished and hopefully, to loose a bit more. Loosing resolve happens too easily when you cook for a living and it happens too easily when you love to eat. And it happens when I find myself with a pile of duck fat

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A friend's Father died early this morning on the break of our Independence Day celebration. I didn't know him well but I know his daughter and she is a 'Full of Life Gal' and from what I gather he was the same. All of this thinking segued to my own Father and how he also charged through life.  Also a full of life man, a big man with a big personality who had big appetites...especially when

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Ser·en·dip·i·ty  ---finding something wonderful when and where it's least expected.... So went this evening's visit at TIN DRUM asiacafé: I didn't expect to experience good food at a chain restaurant: eateries where fare is humdrum, service hurried and you know ahead of time that what you're served never looks as good as the picture on the menu. TIN DRUM dashed my (bad)

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Kennebunkport, ME is home to the (senior) Bush's and Walker Point, their family home. It is a summer destination for dining, shopping, lobster and all things Maine. Streets, shops and restaurants during those months are clogged with tourists and prices are, well, a little over the top. But down the road a piece is the "Port's" little sister, Kennebunk. Kennebunk is not the "Port"; it is

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All of us will agree that this has been a week of tragedy and loss; in Boston, Texas and the upper Midwest. Man and nature have tried our forebearance. And as we bury and mourn our dead and our horribly injured and suffer tragic loss we seek a way to understand and comfort each other. In my world food nourishes and calms the injured, grieving soul. Recovery can take many forms and a good meal

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If history holds true,  many of us will be thinking about our waist lines right about now. Cold weather is slipping away along with the need for the bulky clothing that hides bellies and extra pounds. Bathing suit season is about to hit. Yikes, we need to DIET! But weighing food, counting calories and dining exclusively on lettuce doesn't work for most of us. Drastic deprivation is not a

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Inspiration for blogging left me months ago and I expected that would be it. But life is funny and stuff happens and today I found motivation in a bubbly pot of cold rice, cream and a bunch of sugar. I was cooking rice pudding. Who'd a thought? There's something comforting in these old fashioned recipes. I like the sentimentality of them. They conjure memories of Mother and Aunts and dishes of

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101 Concepts, the group behind behind Food 101 and Meehan's Public House, opened their newest venture, Cibo e Beve (pronounced Chee-boh e Bevay---Italian for Food and Drink) one year ago. To celebrate the anniversary, they invited a bunch of us blogger and media folk to a special 5-course dinner featuring some of Chef Linda Harrell's signature dishes and her newest creations. The menu,

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A big fat slice of New York style pizza is the stuff of my dreams. I just can't find it here in Atlanta, even with Antico and Double Zero. I just crave those giant slices of crispy crust pizza dripping with oil and topped with gobs of melting, mouth burning cheese. The kind you fold in half that over hangs the plate it comes on. The kind that comes from those tiny 100-year-old joints where you

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Visiting Long Island means at least one visit to the ocean and a meal of sweet fresh fish literally right off the boat. That's the beauty of living near the sea. Nothing frozen, nothing that's traveled more than a few miles before it hits your plate. Son and I made that ocean visit a while ago looking for something delicious to put on the grill. Freeport's Nautical Mile---locally known as

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I don't have to remind anyone how brutal the heat has been the last week or so. My A/C is struggling to keep up and friend Stan tells me it can only cool down 20 degrees from the outside temp. That means I'm living with +80 degree temps in my house. It's just too hot. My energy and my appetite have tanked. So what did we do for the Fourth of July with little motivation and less interest in food

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Dunwoody celebrates its diverse line up of local and national chain restaurants with $10 prix-fixe menus. One week only, June 23 - June 30. Click on the link below for participating restaurants. Dunwoody Restaurant Week

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Seasons 52 got its name from the original concept of changing the menu weekly to reflect what foods were at their absolute seasonal best. After burning out several chefs and facing complaints from loyal guests, the changes were scaled back to a few times a year. I am glad that's what they're now doing because you have time to go eat the food we enjoyed the other night. The occasion was to

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I visited the 9/11 Memorial. It was an emotional experience, more affecting than I expected; like seeing a deeply holy place. No more writing now....just photos and some captions. Canvas signs line the streets making it easy to find  A heavy police presence Security lines and screening like the airport...several checkpoints follow The visitor's pass...keep it out, it will be

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I am so tickled...Charm City Cakes (Pastry Chef Duff Goldman) mentioned my blog in their blog. I know it's silly but they're famous and I'm not. Thank you! Charm City Cakes.

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There was a lot of visiting this weekend. For Saturday, Son and family joined a neighborhood wide tag sale and a pot luck back yard dinner followed. For Mother's Day we visited my Daughter-in-law's family where another food laden table waited. The neighborhood outdid themselves..... I love these kinds of get togethers where everyone brings a favorite dish and the table ends up groaning under

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A handful of forlorn strawberries stared at me when I opened the fridge the other day. I was looking for salad dressing ingredients and the strawberries gave me an idea: Strawberry vinaigrette. It was delicious. 1/4 cup sherry vinegar 6-8 finely chopped strawberries 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 small clove of garlic, minced fine 1 tablespoon honey Extra virgin olive oil Kosher salt and

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The James Beard Foundation held their annual awards this evening in a glittering event at Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center) in NY City. Two of Atlanta's premier Chefs walked away in a tie for The Best Chef (Southeast) awards...Hugh Acheson (Chef/Owner of Empire State South, Five and Ten, The National) and Linton Hopkins (Chef/Owner of Restaurant Eugene and Holman and Finch). It was Chef

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Ramps turned up in my local farmers market last week and I grabbed a small handful of those lovely baby leeks. I adore these wild onions and their onion-garlicky crunch but at $19.99 a pound a handful is all I dared buy. (And their season is short---just through June--- so it was buy now or wait another year). Wash them well, trim off the root end (like you would a leek) and give them a

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Imagine dining in Edwardian opulence. White gloved waiters clad in starched white coats gliding quietly around your table bearing artfully arranged food on silver trays. China is rare turn of the century porcelain and fragile crystal sparkles with Armagnac costing $400 an ounce. The menu, a ten course extravaganza, includes a foie gras terrine, rare out of season truffles and a host of

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It's always difficult to review a restaurant when your visit there is preceded by raves and your experience does not quite match the rapture you expected. You wonder what's wrong with you. Were my expectations too high or was I too cranky too appreciate the place and needed another visit?  So, I did visit a second time. Same mixed results. I loved these lights Double Zero is a

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I just found out about this place and I can not! wait to visit. Too bad this weekend is so scheduled. Otherwise, by now, I'd be walking through their door. Artisan cured meats.... The Spotted Trotter 1610 Hosea L. Williams Dr. Suites A & B Atlanta, GA 30317 404-254-4958kevin@thespottedtrotter.com 

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50 Local, Kennebunk, Maine There's nothing like sitting at table with a best friend, tummies full and grinning over a wonderful dinner. "Maybe just one more sip of wine," we murmur to ourselves. Neither one of us wants to leave the table, break the spell. So we sit there a moment more. We are so thrilled with what we just ate. Local food sources Dinner at 50 Local---a small bistro located on

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It's Super Bowl time. I love Super Bowl. But not because I'm so interested in clashes of titans. But because I love an excuse to get together with friends and eat lots of not so healthy food that I get to cook. Most of the time I do focus on all the good things. This one day a year I succumb to a baser instinct and go big time for carbs, meaty stuff and things that comfort. Here's my plan for

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