Click on the video screen above to watch my Tribe and I celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving Champagne Toast! With so much to be thankful for this holiday, I hosted my annual Friends Thanksgiving soiree and invited everyone around the table to share their stories of gratitude. In an effort to convert our British [...]
Archive for November, 2009
November 25th, 2009
Market Report: Gobble, Gobble
I have this friend, a certain Mr. Snotty McSnobster, which, if you can believe it, is not his real name, and with whom I disagree on just about everything… except maybe the reigning superiority of cheese as the world’s perfect food.
When he says “slow-food eating locavore” the words are dripping with derision; when I [...]
November 20th, 2009
Market Report: Evening In The Prep Kitchen
Click on the video screen above to watch the second webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s Fit for a Queen soiree, celebrating the launch of Queen Latifah’s new fragrance “Queen” at Macy’s, or click here to get my recipe for the featured Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli. Begin at the beginning to view [...]
November 18th, 2009
Food Fight
Her revolution started with taste.
Back in 1971 when Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse, she wasn’t so much interested in becoming a restaurateur, as she was provoked to open a restaurant that would cater to her values. She wanted to feed the Berkeley revolutionaries and build a revolutionary meeting place that would, as she says, [...]
November 13th, 2009
Market Report: Scallops, Santa & Scrooge
Like any through-and-through New Yorker, I have a secret, almost an illicit fantasy – moving. In this recurring dream, my destination is Northern California, where I’d live in an actual house, somewhere near the sea or grape vines, and do California things: like become a morning person and walk a big beautiful dog on the [...]
November 10th, 2009
Crush-a-belle: The Darkest Dark Chocolate
Okay, I’m officially over the Fall Back time change. Yes, it was great to wake up after an indulgent Halloween feast having logged an extra hour of sleep, but now I just find myself fading earlier. Around 4 o’clock, when I can sense that the sun is about to go down, my eyelids feel heavier, [...]
November 6th, 2009
Market Report: Mornings At The Market
Click on the video screen above to watch the first webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s Fit for a Queen soiree, celebrating the launch of Queen Latifah’s new fragrance “Queen” at Macy’s, or click here to get my recipe for the featured Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli. Shopping at the Union Square Farmers’ [...]
November 4th, 2009
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver has long been my favorite celebrity chef. He’s equal parts conscientious, wickedly skilled in the kitchen, fantastically inspired with his approach to food, and damn sexy. He has a food life worthy of envy that he’s undoubtedly earned through years of getting down to brass tacks both behind the stove and in front [...]
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