Category Archives: Food and Drink

Eating (and Drinking) Excels at Estela: Part 2 – Dinner

Posted on April 18, 2014 by John Sconzo

In my post on brunch at Estela I mentioned that good personal circumstances can enhance the experience of a meal. For that brunch, I couldn’t have enjoyed better circumstances – I had my whole family with me, an occurrence now [...]

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Eating (and Drinking) Excels at Estela: Part 1 – Brunch

Posted on April 17, 2014 by John Sconzo

When we first sat down at Estela and perused the brunch menu, my first inclination was that my first time there should have been for dinner. It was just brunch, after all. While it would likely be good, they had [...]

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Husk – A Look Behind The Scenes

Posted on April 15, 2014 by John Sconzo

After a fabulous meal at Husk this past October, I and my friend, Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog, who had been dining there that evening with his family, had the pleasure of a behind the scenes tour of the restaurant with Husk [...]

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Husk – A New Taste of the Old South

Posted on April 14, 2014 by John Sconzo

The last time I had been in Charleston, Husk was a gleam in Sean Brock’s eye. He knew where and what it was going to be and when he spoke about it it was with great excitement. Chef Brock made [...]

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Back to Birch

Posted on April 9, 2014 by John Sconzo

Ben Sukle is one of my favorite young chefs in the country and it has been a pleasure watching (and tasting) his continued progression as a chef from his early days at The Dorrance, where the influence of his stint [...]

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Perfektion at Pakta

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Lawrence Sconzo

It’s well known that Peruvian cuisine, with its diverse cultural influences – from Spain, Germany, China, Italy, Japan, and of course the indigenous Peruvians who have made it their home for centuries before these new arrivals – and incredible wealth [...]

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Los Andinos in Madrid – A Force of Nature

Posted on April 7, 2014 by John Sconzo

As the movie Ratatouille pointed out, the ring of the familiar and the allure of the distant or not so distant past, often has a lot of influence on what is considered to be “delicious.” Indeed, various iterations of “comfort [...]

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My Big News – A Major Life Change!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by John Sconzo

To those of you who know me, this may not be a huge surprise. To others, well, what can I say? Perhaps not so apparent here on the blog, but if you also happen to follow my Instagram feed,  you [...]

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A Conversation With Chef Philip Tessier, USA’s Candidate for Bocuse D’Or 2015

Posted on March 31, 2014 by John Sconzo

I didn’t know much about Chef Philip Tessier before he was selected to be the  American Candidate for the Bocuse D’Or in Lyon France in January 2015, but I did get to know him a bit at the Benefit dinner held [...]

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Bocuse d’Or USA at The Culinary Vegetable Institute – In Good Hands

Posted on March 28, 2014 by John Sconzo

Competitiveness is a basic human trait that has been around for as long as history has been recorded and likely well before that too. At its basest level, competition can bring out the worst in human nature, but at its [...]

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