Monthly Archives: September 2010

Starchefs ICC 2010 Day Two Photos

Posted on September 29, 2010 by docsconz

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Dining at Mikla

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Lawrence Sconzo

 
It has been some time since I dined at Mikla, chef Mehmet Gurs’ penthouse restaurant in Istanbul, but the flavors from the night are still fresh in my mind. The meal was a fitting end to a spectacular foray […]

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Starchefs ICC 2010 Day One Photos

Posted on September 25, 2010 by docsconz

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noma Now…and Then – A Look Back During Lunch

Posted on September 20, 2010 by docsconz

In a sense, as modern diners, we have a restaurant in which can have our cake and can eat it too. We have a very sophisticated restaurant that comfortably allows us to deeply respond to deep primal culinary instincts.

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Oven Dried Tomatoes

Posted on September 19, 2010 by docsconz

 
Sun-dried tomatoes have received a bad rap in recent years – perhaps because they were just about everywhere and in everything back in the '80's and early '90's or perhaps because most people have only tried commercial versions. That's […]

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Food, Farms & the Future at Skidmore College

Posted on September 18, 2010 by docsconz

 
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Tomatoes – September 2010

Posted on September 17, 2010 by docsconz

 
I have lamented about the apparent dearth of really good tomatoes around where I live this summer, but these from Kim Feeney and her husband Kevin London at Farmhouse at Top of the World were an exception to the […]

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Dinner at noma – The Principal Plates

Posted on September 15, 2010 by docsconz

There will not, can not be another noma somewhere else in the world. There may someday be one that will attempt to replicate what is here, but if there is, it will not succeed, for noma is a restaurant of a very specific terroir.

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A Dinner at noma – the Snacks

Posted on September 13, 2010 by docsconz

 
Having spent a good part of the day visiting noma and getting a behind-the-scenes look at its operations, Chef Scott Boswell and I made it back through the cold Copenhagen rain to relax a little and change before we […]

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Inside noma – A Docsconz Video

Posted on September 9, 2010 by docsconz

In the second half of August I had the opportunity to travel to Copenhagen and visit noma, the restaurant now considered by The San Pellegrino World's Fifty Best Restaurants as the number one restaurant in the world. Prior to dining […]

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