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One of my gold star moments is having the best foie gras at Spago. Served 5 ways and each perfect. The holy grail was found (did I mention it was served by Chef Puck). Wolfgang Puck restaurants came to Denver in 1998. Fusion cuisine, casual […]
Attended an End of Summer Party where Pizza Friday and Travel Eats ran together. Wood fired, anywhere is the mantra. Basic Kneads followed through. They did a great job keeping in front of the guests appetite. The pizza did not end at the end of […]
Foodie discovery from the thread of Mort Rosenblum’s book “Chocolate a bitter sweet Saga of Dark and light”. Cooking “Mole De Olla” under a Mexican volcano..what a vision. The “Mole De Olla” recipe is copy cat recipe found in Diana Kennedy’s book.
Diana Kennedy’s is the “Authoritative Cultural Missionary”. The recipes in cuisines of Mexico cook book are classic and my go to resource for Mexican flavors.
ISBN 0-06-181481-4
Shake Shack recipes and stories is what brought me to the book. the book has excellent photos and shared recipes. We went to experience the Shake Shack opening in Rhino first hand (Blog March 27 2017) For me – the unexpected in the book […]
Travels Eats and destination comfort food are the culinary threads from The Funky finds in Flavortown. America’s classic Joints and Killer Comfort Food lay out a culinary road map for finding joints with the “funky and scratch-made real deal recipes”. Northeast and Mid-atlantic, South, Midwest, West and southwest. […]
Heard on NPR weekend edition spun a great culinary thread. Wisconsin State fair for cream puffs.
The iconic cream puff is sold at the fair and is 94 years in the making. There is a cream puff hotline to pre-order. the story starts as “proudly going where everyone else has gone before”. love it. It is told in the middle of the cream puff pavilion. “Wisconsin is a dairy state” and the cream is what sells about 400,000 cream puffs at the fair. The for my self – the hook was the description of the inside the cream puff pavilion into the industrial kitchen. The industrial production of baking puffs (pate a choux ) and hand filling the “mid-western cream”(hmm..what is mid-western cream?).
The customers described many ways of eating the giant cream puff…. I liked ignore getting sticky. get messy and get “all in”.
Travel eats has the Wisconsin State Fair for Cram puff as a must experience. The Cream Puffs of Wisconsin is a great listen on NPR.
Location location location … and service. Walter 303 is a comfortable neighbor hood pizzeria. Enthusiastic staff transform the pizzeria into a charming location to slow down, chat and enjoy. My 3 dining criteria include: architectural aesthetics, background noise, and the food on the plate. The restaurant […]
Reading “Onward” is a surprise. I had expected a culinary read. The thread back to culinary is not beverages nor ethically sourcing product. Onward is a book narrating transformation and building his team building. Howard Schultz is the CEO who came to came to oversee […]
Words.
Words are in everything. John Lennon is one of the greatest songwriters. Over 300 postcards and letters have been collected and threaded together into a delightful journey. A journey into John’s words, thoughts and processes over time. It is an unlikely culinary thread. The thread is the clear organization of thought.
The Imperial typewriter and LP’s are only a part of John Lennon’s communication tools that captured words. John Lennon’s letters are often satirical. The songs are some of the best. The John Lennon Letters is a recipe book of thought, words, imagination that is well organized. I enjoyed reading Hunter Davis’s contextualized John’s letters..
ISBN 978-0-316-20080-6
Pizza Friday took us to Cart-Driver in Rhino (Denver – River North ). We were instantly greeted by Alec who warmly explained the layout. We took the bar seat and had dinner and the show. the wood-fired pizza made quickly and consistently perfect. well organized […]