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Anne's Food (Free subscription) | yesterday
Portugal has a pretty bad food rap, at least here in Sweden. My friends went there on vacation and came back and really ranted about the bad food. With this in mind, I was wary when I received David Leite's book "The New Portuguese Table". I have to say, I've really changed my mind now - this food is anything but boring and repetitive, and it looks very fresh and flavorful. Leite has a Portuguese...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
* * * * * Culinary Institute of America Worlds of Flavor Spain Website Spain’s Innovative Vangaurdia Cuisine vs. Traditional Down-Home Cooking (Click for full article.) CIA Student Chef finishing a Paco Roncero's sensationa l "Nido de Huevo Carbonara" (Nest of Egg Carbonara) dish with liquid nitrogen at the Worlds of Flavor marketplac e. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2009 . Excerpt (article...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
* * * * * Australia's wine glut From a post on The Curious Capitalist Posted by Justin Fox Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 9:54 pm 3 Comments • Trackback (0) • Related Topics: Wall Street , australia , wine The Wine Economist reports that Australia's overproduction of wine has reached a crisis point: Australia has an accumulated surplus of 100 million cases of wine that will double in the...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
* * * * * Ribeira Sacra - Donde Godello y Mencía encuentran la gloria (article in Spanish) Ribeira Sacra: Where Godello and Mencía are bound for glory by Gerry Dawes (Wine News, Fall 2009) Ribeira Sacra Tasting Notes with Photographs R ibeira Sacra: The Perfect Lunch with Almalarga Godello at O Grelo Restaurant About Gerry Dawes Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional...
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COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A lesson on 100 of the most adept contemporary chefs from around the world and the food they prepare, Phaidon's new book "Coco:10 World Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs" assembles an in-depth list of who's who, affirmed by 10 renowned culinary luminaries such as Alain Ducasse, Ferran Adrià, Gordon Ramsay and Mario Batali. Beginning with chef Hugh Acheson of Five &...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
THE PLANET GOOP— In her newsletter today, Gwyneth Paltrow surveys a host of big names from the restaurant world on their three most impressive dining experiences. Ferran Adria name-drops his brother's tapas bar, while Amanda Hesser simply opts for El...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Las ventas del vino de Rioja caen un 17% en Septiembre - Mercados del Vino y de la Distribución 10 Nov. 2009 Sales of Rioja wines down 17% in September, 21% in the Spanish national market; exports down 11% for the year. (More to follow.) About the author Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks...
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Essex Eating (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Regular readers of my blog will know that I love a good cookbook. My shelves sag under their collective weight but still, like every addict; it's never enough I want 'more' and 'better'. Which is where my latest acquisition comes in, because it certainly fulfils both requirements. COCO is a beautiful, weighty, glossy, large and rather sleek book. It is the first of it's kind, in as much that it is...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
There's one more item to add to The Shutter today. Flo Fab brings word that chef Alex Ureña's two starred Spanish restaurant Pamplona will close after service this evening. The chef, a disciple of both Ferran Adria and David Bouley,...
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Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
"With each bite, tender threads of custard unravel on your tongue and melt away down into your gullet." [Photograph: Michael Nagrant] Until now, there has been no Ferran Adria or Thomas Keller of breakfast here in Chicago. There are great places that serve straightforward classics, including my favorite Benedict at Meli Café and even slightly innovative sweet-skewing spots (Butterfinger...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Kitty Travers is being hailed as a chef of the future – not bad for a woman who sells her ice-cream from a van Just as anyone who is led through their life by their tastebuds can remember flavoured moments, Kitty Travers's life is dotted with scoops of ice-cream. "I remember those yellow blocks I had as a child, all sticky," she says. She remembers tiny balls of lily of the valley-flavoured...
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yumsugar (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
21 desserts that celebrate Fall. - Bon Appétit Why are doctors selling out to Coke ?- The Atlantic Learn how to paint your kitchen. - The Amateur Gourmet Scenes from the 2009 Los Angeles Chocolate Salon. - Daily Dish Andrew Carmellini was crowned the Meatball King at the New York Wine and Food Festival. - Grub Street NY Scary or practical? Coasters that detect if a drink is spiked with date-rape...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
About the author Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for...
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Eater (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
This week, the renowned Ferran Adria is finally set to join the ranks of the Flays and Lagasses by getting his own television show. The ten-episode series on Spanish television called El Bulli: The History of a Dream will show...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Ferrán Adrià is many things — visionary, chemist, artist, magician — but the man widely regarded as the world’s best chef may be about to add another adjective to his astonishing CV, that of saviour.
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