My New Book—Ice Cream: A Global History

July 4 Recipe: Red, White and Blue Soup

July 4 recipe: Red, White, and Blue Soup. Easy and tasty.

A Man-Pleasing Recipe for Father’s Day: Bacon Chive Rice

This man pleasing bacon and rice recipe for Father’s Day—or any day you want to please your man—comes from a 1971 booklet called Man-pleasing Recipes, published by the Rice Council of America.
The cover photo, explains Chef Renee, shows a huge rare roast beef, along side a casserole of colorful seasoned rice. You can also pair [...]

Holiday Cooking Class: Christmas in Provence Workshop

The Culinary Loft, which puts on food events throughout the year, is giving their holiday offerings a French twist.
Paule Caillat, owner of Promenades Gourmandes in Paris, and Rosa Jackson, owner Les Petits Farcis in Nice, will teach a series of four pre-Christmas workshop from December 16 through 19.
Paule’s workshops will focus on cheese and chocolate. [...]

For Chefs, Golf Ushers in Summer Fun

Guest columnist Toni Lydecker, author of Seafood alla Siciliana: Recipes and Stories from a Living Tradition, reported on area chefs who practice their strokes on the golf course as well as in the kitchen.
Who knew that chefs hanker for a round of golf after coming off a marathon workweek? Not only chefs but bartenders and [...]

Daniel Boulud Pins Hopes on American Showing in Bocuse d’Or Cooking Competition

It’s “the hardest cooking competition in the world, ” said Gavin Kaysen, who placed sixth as the US contender in the 2007 Bocuse d’Or cooking competition that’s been dubbed the Culinary Olympics.
Twelve US teams, each composed of a chef and an assistant, were announced at a press conference at Restaurant Daniel in New York on [...]