Whether he’s cooking for you or you’re cooking for him, happy father’s day to everyone spending the day in the kitchen! Continue reading ‘Father’s Day’
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Father’s Day
Published 20 June 2010 General , Videos 2 CommentsTags: Eat Drink Man Woman, Father's Day
Hungry on the Cooking Channel
Published 2 June 2010 General , Videos 2 CommentsTags: Ana Sofia, Cooking Channel, Food Network, Food People, Market Lover, Stay Hungry
I first read that the Food Network would be launching a second cable channel on Memorial Day in February, when summer seemed a long time away. A few weeks later, a friend recommended me to a production company that was looking for food people to talk on camera about their interest, love, passion for food to promote the new channel. After years in film production, I’d been content to stay behind the camera. If they’d asked me to “audition”, I may have backed down, but they called it a “screen test” instead. Actors “audition” but at a “screen test” you can just be yourself (or Lana Turner). That’s a how I find myself, a week later, getting wired for sound in a New Jersey produce market (very unlike Lana). Continue reading ‘Hungry on the Cooking Channel’
Spring Break and Catching Up in April
Published 26 April 2010 Catching Up , Food Breaks , General , Videos Leave a CommentTags: A Chica Bakes, ABC News, Adafetida, Coconut Brigadeiros, Daisy Martinez, Daisy: Morning Noon and Night, John Willoughby, Jose Pizarro, Julia Child IACP award, Leticia Moreinos Schwartz, Nirmala Narine, Nirmala's Edible Diary, Pimento: It's Spanish for 'Better Than Paprika', Seasonal Spanish Food, The Brazilian Kitchen, Where the Boys Are
With the days a blur of pollen and rain showers and my 200th post coming up, I thought it would be a good time to take a break, update my site and catch-up on my reading. ABC New recently posted a list of recent cookbooks on Latin cuisine and I can’t decide if I want to start with Nirmala’s Edible Diary by Nirmala Narine, Jose Pizarro’s Seasonal Spanish Food – a finalist for this year’s Julia Child IACP award for a first book, or Daisy Martinez’s latest – Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night (click here for her interview with A Chica Bakes). I’ll probably go with The Brazilian Kitchen by Leticia Moreinos Schwartz because it’s because it’s been leading my wish list since I tried her recipe for coconut brigadeiros last month. There have also been some interesting one ingredient articles. Now that the weather is fit for wandering, I plan on seeking out new markets and sources to include here. Apart from last week’s look at cilantro, which always elicits strong opinions, John Willoughby’s Pimentón: It’s Spanish for ‘Better Than Paprika’ had me triple checking the denominations of my paprika, and I’m still not sure what the Indian spice asafetida does but can’t wait to find out. That’s my spring break plan – cooking, reading, and shopping. I’ll be back next week, still hungry and with a lot to talk about, unless I decide to ditch it all for sunbathing, flirting with Ivy Leaguers, and bebop. Stay tuned.
Effortless Easter
Published 4 April 2010 General , Videos Leave a CommentTags: Easter, Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, You Tube
I had wanted to post an Easter dessert recipe but my over ambitious project for a torticas de mil hojas had to be done over, scaled down, and is now just barely finished (and just barely holding together). I didn’t want to let the day go by without wishing everyone a Happy Easter and including a clip from one of my favorite movies. Fred Astaire made everything looks as easy as taking candy from a baby, or in this case, a bunny from a boy.
Holiday Break
Published 11 October 2009 Food Breaks , General , Videos Leave a CommentTags: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Roman Holiday
I’ll be taking a few days off to update my site, do some research, catch-up. I wish I were taking a few days off to get a haircut, ride a Vespa with Gregory Peck, eat gelato, and smash a prop guitar in a barge brawl. So while I’m away, I thought I’d leave you with these images. Arrivaderci!
Vicarious Eating
Published 17 August 2009 General , Spain , Videos Leave a CommentTags: El Bulli, Ferran Adria, Anthony Bourdain, Amateur Gourmet, Times Talks Podcast
A few weeks, I listened to the Times Talks podcast from November 2008 where Eric Asimov from of the New York Times moderated a fascinating discussion between Anthony Bourdain and El Bulli’s Ferran Adrià. While Adrià’s passion and intellect were in full display, the slide show that accompanied his evocative words was not. While we’re used to watching people talk about and enjoy food we’re not eating, listening on my iPhone to an audience ooh and ahh over the photographs being projected that I also wasn’t seeing, was just sad. Normally, I could let my imagination run wild, but I don’t think my imagination would be a match in this case. That’s one reason I loved this post by the Amateur Gourmet, Adam Roberts, about his visit to El Bulli this month. It’s exactly how I may have imagined my own meal there but in comic book format with video clips. By far, my favorite vicarious meal this summer.
Color Break
Published 27 July 2009 Brazil , Videos Leave a CommentTags: Aquarela do Brasil, Ary Barroso, Disney, Donald Duck, Watercolor of Brasil, Ze Carioca
With the constant threat of rain, I did my usual food shopping this weekend under a white sky. Along with the usual Mccann’s oatmeal, baby spinach, and salmon, I’m constantly running out for more peppers, plantains, and vino seco since starting this blog, loving the colors they add. Walking through the gray today on a search for coconuts (more on that later), I couldn’t help but feel happy despite the rain. I’d wanted to post this version of Aquarela do Brasil for a few weeks and today seemed like the perfect day, even more so when I read the composer, Ary Barroso, wrote it during a thunderstorm.
Argentinian Spotlight
Published 13 July 2009 Argentina , Videos Leave a CommentTags: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Spotlights Its Cafes, Cafe Nostalgia, Camille Cusumano, Carlos Gardel, Las Violetas, New York Times
It seems I’m not the only one pre-occupied with Argentina these days…by far. After posting about my weekend stab at matambra, I saw this New York Times article, “Buenos Aires Spotlights Its Cafes” in yesterday’s travel section. A brief sampling, it highlights interesting cafes throughout the city from the famous ones like Las Violetas to a small bistro operating out of a building where they’d made coffins named Café Nostalgia. Here’s a clip of Carlos Gardel to test the saying that he “every day sings a little better”:
Dancing with Firecrackers
Published 4 July 2009 General , Videos Leave a CommentTags: Fourth of July, Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn, Say it with firecrackers
Happy Fourth of July! Say it with firecrackers!
A Daughter Also Rises
Published 21 June 2009 General , New York , Videos 4 CommentsTags: Borough Hall Greenmarket, Joe Ades, Peeler Guy, Ruth Ades Laurent, Union Square Greenmarket, Vanity Fair
It’s pretty common to spot celebrities in New York. Well, common for most people. I usually stare at them blankly, trying to place their face, then realize half way down the block that I didn’t go to high school with them. It’s a little less common to see someone you can hear yourself reminiscing about in your rocking chair years, beginning with “there was a man who…” That’s what it was like seeing Joe Ades, the “peeler guy” in Union Square Market. Listening to his English sing song selling potato peelers on beautiful market Saturdays made you want to jump in a chalk drawing. I still remember the excitement I felt when I saw him set up at the smaller Greenmarket in Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, feeling that out tiny market had finally “arrived”.
