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kansas city: save the date… 15 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
~ It is a new day at The American Restaurant in Kansas City. Debbie Gold, the former executive chef, has left (to open a new restaurant, The Red Door Grill), and Michael Corvino, formerly the execut...
2013 twelve days of christmas: save the dates… 19 Jun 2013 | 03:34 am
~ For the past five years, Christopher Kostow, chef of the three Michelin-starred The Restaurant at Meadowood has hosted an extraordinary series of dinners known as the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” Ev...
travel: second city… 29 May 2013 | 05:28 am
~ When I left my twenties, I went to Chicago to mark the passing of that decade, and to welcome the next. In the five years since, I’ve kept the tradition, choosing a different city with each new birt...
rumination 28: what goes up, must come down… 29 Apr 2013 | 07:30 pm
We are on the eve of the annual announcement of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list (published by the British magazine Restaurant and sponsored by San Pellegrino & Acqua Panna). As chefs from all ...
travel: rediscovering coastal cuisine… 25 Apr 2013 | 09:46 am
~ I’m not going to be shy: I’m very good with geography. I always have been. (I also have an unusually good sense of direction. My family calls me the walking GPS.) But, whereas I once associated pl...
travel: the well-preserved patina of yesterday… 22 Mar 2013 | 01:20 am
~ You know those restaurants you’ve been meaning to visit for ten years? I have long lists of them. And none is longer or harder to maintain than my New York list. New York City is a high-volume sit...
travel: better late than never… 19 Mar 2013 | 09:27 pm
~ The last time I was in Copenhagen, I was eleven years-old. In the years since, the city has waxed into a culinary constellation that now attracts gastronauts from faraway places. Copenhagen’s rise a...
travel: one day more… 14 Mar 2013 | 08:18 pm
~ In January of 2011, I went to Lyon a spectator, expecting little more than a fun detour on a two-week break from life. It turned out to be the start of the most incredible adventure I’ve known yet. ...
kansas city: 2013 chefs classic… 5 Mar 2013 | 11:21 pm
The Chefs Classic, held in late June, raises money for Harvester’s, a food bank in the greater Kansas City area. I serve on the event’s planning committee. Every year, hosting chef Debbie Gold and I i...
travel: paper coronation… 4 Mar 2013 | 09:43 am
~ Europe: if it weren’t for your slow-speed (and often, non-existent) internet and lack of air-conditioning, I’d declare you the superior continent without reservation. But God bless, every time I ste...
