Category Archives: Starchefs

Spanish Ham Without Borders – Linton Hopkins of Restaurant Eugene – Atlanta, GA

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Sara Gardener in Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, New York City, Sara Gardener, Slow Food, Southern Food & Cooking, Spain, Starchefs, The Southern USA, Traditional Ethnic

Why would celebrated Southern Chef Linton Hopkins be leading an Ibérico Ham slicing demo? These were my first thoughts as I stepped into the 9:00am workshop at this year’s Star Chefs ICC. Country Ham, certainly, but after all, there were [...]

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Dining at La Grenouillére

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, France, Hotels, LJ Sconzo, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

After getting a taste of Chef Alex Gauthier’s cooking at last year’s StarChefs ICC (read about it here), I was looking forward to our reservation at his nouveau-French restaurant more than any other on our pilgrimage. Happily, it did not [...]

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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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Boragó – Tasting Chile’s Ancient Roots With A New Vision

Posted on April 24, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Travel, Wine

Chile’s neighboring country of Peru has long been known for the seemingly infinite variety of native ingredients, many of which have been adopted and adapted by other cultures as part of the Columbian Exchange, in which products from the Americas [...]

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StarChefs ICC 2012 – Chocolate Innovations – Francisco Migoya

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Rocky Merchant in Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, New York City, Pastry, Rocky Merchant, Slow Food, Starchefs, Upstate NY

It was a real treat to have a front row seat watching Francisco Migoya at work – crafting beautiful and delectable chocolate creations with precise technique and imaginative design. Migoya presented three main platforms for innovation: rethinking chocolate’s base ingredients, [...]

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StarChefs ICC 2012 – Roberto Caporuscio and Antonio Starita – Deep-fried Traditions: Montanara Pizza

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Lucas Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Italy, Lucas Sconzo, New York City, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic

What has allowed the Montanara—a fried, then lightly-baked pizza of Neapolitan origin—to assert itself, as it has in recent years, so strongly in New York City, which already has its own pizza culture? Does its popularity in the Big Apple [...]

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StarChefs ICC 2012 – The Link: Smoke and Sausage in New Orleans – Bart Bell and Nathanial Zimet

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Lucas Sconzo in Bistronomic, Food and Drink, Lucas Sconzo, New Orleans, New York City, Regional, Slow Food, Southern Food & Cooking, Starchefs, Traditional Ethnic

“Man, I am so hungover right now,” groaned Chef Bart Bell of Crescent Pie and Sausage Company to Nathanial Zimet of Boucherie shortly before the start of their hands-on workshop. Zimet responded with a hearty laugh and a nod; both [...]

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StarChefs ICC 2012 – Alexandre Gauthier – French Transformation

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, France, LJ Sconzo, Slow Food, Starchefs, Travel

Alex Gauthier showcased his exciting innovations on French culinary form at this year’s StarChefs showcase. You might think that classic French cuisine is all played out, that there’s nowhere to go from fine terrine of foie gras or coq au [...]

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A Little Love For Le Cirque

Posted on January 8, 2013 by docsconz in Cheese, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, New York City, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

It had been quite a while since I had last been to Le Cirque, one of the legendary restaurants of NYC culinary history. I was there a few years ago for a party during the StarChefs ICC, but the last [...]

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StarChefs ICC 2012 – Sour Sips and Drinking Vinegars – Lynette Marrero & Kelly Slagle

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rocky Merchant in Cocktails & Libations, Cooking, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, New York City, Rocky Merchant, Slow Food, Starchefs

Mixology mavens, Lynette Marrero and Kelley Slagle, led this mixology lesson  with a lip-pursing  variety of vinegar based cocktails. The lesson was extensive, covering every core subject – from the ancient history of vinegar, to its chemical composition,  then finally to [...]

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