There are so many great causes to support and so many charitable events – how does one choose? For me it is the cause, and the cause is the Kidney Foundation and their fundraiser Santé: An Epicurean Adventure on Sunday, June 13th.Santé (definition: Health)
There is an emotional tie to the Kidney Foundation - Get all the details: Gourmet food, wine, cocktails, beer, cooking demonstration & more - all in one event
Memorial Day weekend and most of you are counting the minutes to leave your office. Most of you will either be grilling for the holiday weekend or invited to a barbecue and there will be burgers. This is an informal survey to find out how you like your burgers. What kind of meat do you like? Is it ground beef, chuck, sirloin or is it ground turkey or chicken. Share your burger dreams: What is your burger of choice?
The draw for the Foodie Experience at the Hippodrome Theatre were the stars of the show, No Reservation’s Anthony Bourdain and Le Bernardin’s Eric Ripert which I wrote about in Part 1 of the Bourdain & Ripert – the good, the bad and the calories – (Read HERE). When purchasing the tickets you had choices for just the show for approximately $29 or $49, $89 for the show and a post party with gourmet offerings from local restaurants and city food emporiums. If you were flushed and had $250 you get the foodie experience and get to meet the stars of the show (which I think about 60 people paid for that privilege – the number is from one of my sources.)
Just got a call from friend Adam Borden who said he heard the Food Network was in Baltimore filming and said if anyone would know I would. It took me a moment to remember that the people of Chef VS the City were in town interviewing chefs during snowmagedon. Actually both here and DC. My guess this is what is being filmed.
As children a majority of us grew up with food hang ups. Hamburger wasn’t my thing but I have grown out of that as well as being a picky eater. The question is have we truly out grown them? I can’t help but think of Everyone Loves Raymond’s character Robert Barone who would touch his food to his face before eating it. Yes, it was a character on a television program although these strange hang ups exist. I remember a friend who couldn’t have his foods touch each other on the plate. My sister’s friend had to smell everything before she ate it. Another friend's child would only eat cereal or lettuce. Have our childhood food phobias overlapped into adulthood, why can’t we get past them?
Had you suggested 10 years ago to offer a show with two chefs sitting on stage chit-chatting and have it sell out a theatre, people would have said you should stop drinking. The reality is that last night the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore was filled, jammed with fans of Anthony Bourdain of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations and Eric Ripert of the PBS series Avec Eric.
Restaurant chains are getting a bit smarter in the execution of FREE food offers and creating a more manageable way to make everyone happy. Chick-fil-A is offering a FREE Spicy Chicken Sandwich with a reservation. Consumers are asked to make reservations NOW for pick up from May 31st to June 5th. Chick-fil-A’s new entry to the product line, spicy chicken sandwich, will not be available to the general public until June 7th so the only way you get to taste one before hand is signing up for the FREE sandwich.
What a great way to show off one of Baltimore’s and Maryland’s regional specialties by creating Soft Shell Crab Week in downtown Baltimore. Let’s give a hand to the Downtown Partnership. This isn’t the first Soft Shell Crab week, it kicked off last summer and was so successful it has become an annual event. Soft shell crab lovers, dig in!
You might recognized Joan Nathan’s name from her public broadcasting’s television series,Jewish Cooking America with Joan Nathan based on her book, Jewish Cooking America. A can-do gal of many talents has worked for the mayor of Jerusalem as well as being the guest curator of Food Culture USA at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The consideration now is to go in chronological order or just take you on my own special tour of the Mt. Washington Tavern. Hmmm, not sure, jumping in with both feet. Here goes.
Hot off the press release, here is the poop and the scoop on where Looking at Lucky owners and their VIP friends dined after wining the 135th Preakness. Where you ask? Get all the details:Love wine – check. Relish a well prepared gourmet meal – check. Enjoy stimulating dinner conversation – check. What do you do when there are two excellent choices for multi-course wine dinner with excellent paired wines? How does one choose? How does one choose?
The decision is yours, and yours alone – I will not skew you either way. The price point is about the same the locations are diametrically apart: downtown Baltimore or Monkton, Maryland. These two events are being listed in alphabetical order to show no preferential treatment.
'Teach your children what you believe in. Make a world that we can live in.’ These words of the 1970 Crosby Stills Nash & Young song Teach Your Children are words we all should live by. Our future is in our children. KIPP Harmony Garden Project Engages Kids, Adults in Making Urban GreenSpace
Read how this inner city garden project is kicking off and how the young children are taking part: Teach your children well – Baltimore children involved in KIPP Harmony garden project
Yes, this coming Saturday is the Preakness Race here in Baltimore, a great event that unfortunately overshadows Armed Forces Day, which is celebrated nationwide. On Saturday, May 15th, Sotto Sopra Restaurant would like to honor the men and women in Armed Forces.These brave souls have and are putting their lives on the line to protect this country and our way of life we have grown to expect. Freedom is a privilege not something to be taken for granted.
Don’ t you love church dinners, bull roasts and spaghetti dinners? If the answer is yes, do I have a spaghetti dinner for you this coming Sunday. Bring the whole family, children 6 or under eat for FREE and proceeds go to worthy causes.
Here is a recipe I got to try while working my part-time kitchen slave job. My chef friend, Sylvia, was testing the recipe out for the big dinner party she does for scholars she puts together twice a year. I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT, it was light, refreshing and perfect for spring and summer and it was easy. Did you hear me, EASY and it can be prepped ahead of time.
I’m unable to resist the alliteration but a lovely lingering lunch is what was enjoyed with local gal pal promoter for Langermann’s, Merritt Dworkin. Langermann’s, a recent addition to the Baltimore restaurant scene has revamped the old Kiss Café into a modern venue with an open kitchen format, linen covered tables and a sleek stylized bar. The high ceiling industrial space allows for a 2nd floor dining space – great for private parties.
Kicking off on Monday, May 10th is the Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament where our top regional chefs go head-to-head in a competition where they have one hour to prepare a three course meal. Like March Madness, the winners of each competition move on to the next round of culinary competition. This is happening every Monday and Tuesday with our local talented chefs from the likes of Sotto Sopra to Bistro Blanc- come root your favorite chefs on.
Chef Fergus Henderson of London’s St John Restaurant was in Manhattan yesterday, at Chef Jonathan Waxman’s Barbuto Restaurant in the West Village. This is one of four stops in the United States for the chef who took the awful out of offal. The architect-turned-chef is promoting the forthcoming opening of his London St John Hotel in September. Yesterday was the east coasters only chance to dine on Fergus’s cuisine.
Dean Batlas, executive chef. Dean was the president of the Central Maryland Chefs and Cooks Association for numerous years, an organization that has supported many a charity in the Baltimore region. If you have dined at Harryman House or Jordan’s Steakhouse he probably prepared your meal. Most recently, Dean has worked for Marriott as a food and beverage manager but that is no longer the case.
Tell us what you are doing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Don’t know, haven’t made a decision? Are you open to suggestion?
