Category Archives: Culinary Blogs

The Art of Chocolate – Francisco Migoya’s Hudson Chocolates

Posted on May 16, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Food and Drink, Pastry, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Upstate NY

If there is someone making chocolate confections more creative, beautiful and delicious than Francisco Migoya is doing at his new Hudson Chocolates in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I am unaware of it. I recently stopped there on my way down to NYC [...]

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Breaking News: Frantzen/Lindeberg Now Just Frantzen

Posted on May 1, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Current Affairs, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Restaurants, Scandinavia, Starchefs

Just two days after being proclaimed the twelfth best restaurant in the world on the controversial San Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list as Frantzen/Lindeberg, Bjorn Frantzen and Daniel Lindeberg have announced they are splitting up with Frantzen retaining control [...]

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King Crab and Roasted Lamb – El Meson de la Patagonia

Posted on April 29, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Blogs, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

The day started with a tour and a rousing breakfast at two of Santiago’s main food markets, but that was only the beginning of an epic day of eating some of the best food to be had in Chile (or [...]

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Ten Years Ago Today…

Posted on April 5, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Food Lit

…my life changed in a most unexpected way. It wasn’t a sudden sea change. It was a gradual process, albeit inexorable. It was ten years ago on this day that I joined eGullet.com (it subsequently became eGullet.org a while later [...]

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Lucy’s Tartiflette – A Plum Recipe – Rustic French at its Finest

Posted on February 12, 2013 by docsconz in Cheese, Cooking, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, France, Recipes, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Travel

When my son, L.J. and I were recently in Lyon for the Bocuse d’Or we had the distinct honor, luck and pleasure to have been invited for dinners not once, but twice at the home of my friends Lucy and [...]

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Blog Find – Chefs John B. Shields & Karen Urie

Posted on January 14, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Slow Food

They made themselves known in the food world despite cooking in nearly as difficult a location to get to in the United States as they could find. It was well worth the trip once you made it to Town House. [...]

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Sunday Photo – Paletas La Michoacana

Posted on September 2, 2012 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Pastry, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Travel

I had never had a paleta, a fact that Cristina Potters of the sensational, award-winning food blog Mexico Cooks who knows a thing or two about paletas, was determined to correct. On the final day of the Mesamerica congress in Mexico [...]

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The Saratoga-Albany Ice Cream Sandwich Throw Down – A Photo Slide Show

Posted on August 27, 2012 by docsconz in Bistronomic, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Events, Food and Drink, Food Events, Pastry, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Upstate NY

Congratulations to Saratoga’s new The Comfort Kitchen on winning this inaugural competition and thanks to Daniel Berman for doing the yeoman’s job of organizing this tasty and fun event. Thanks also to IdiotsBeingIdiots for getting the ball rolling. Please see Daniel’s [...]

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Sunday Photo – This Might Just Be the Most Delicious Sandwich in the World

Posted on August 12, 2012 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

The world is filled with wonderful sandwiches. From the relatively simple fresh baguette with one’s personal choice of great ham to complexly constructed subs and heroes, there is no shortage of great taste and texture packaged between a dazzling array [...]

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Eddie Huang, Francis Lam, Next and Sicily

Posted on July 12, 2012 by docsconz in Chicago, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Current Affairs, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Food Lit, France, Italy, Musings, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

Authenticity. How important is that to a restaurant and what does it really mean? A recent discussion between Eddie Huang and Francis Lam talked about that topic with Mr. Huang coming down hard on non-native chefs gaining accolades cooking cuisines [...]

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