Margaret of Tampa is the root participant for Helen’s Asian Kitchen: Easy Chinese Stir-Fries She made Spicy Beef Shreds with Carrots and Celery and is passing the Itinerant Cookbook to Noel of Tampa. “I made the spicy beef stir fry on a week night after work- the prep time was mostly spent...

You like to cook at home but you’re missing a little something to put you over the edge. You watch the food network, read cookbooks in bed, and wish that you had that little extra knowledge to make your cuisine a personal work of art. You admire chefs, and study your plate everytime you sit in...

My recent post “food plating: choose your support” has drawn quite a lot of interest. Today we hear from one reader. She made the following comment: “Submitted on 2009/07/27 at 11:18am I found this post to be particularly interesting. The stark difference in the pictures really stressed...

My good friend and fellow chef Debbie Frangipane is Italian. Very Italian. She cooks great pasta, speak loudly, buy more Gucci shoes than Carla Bruni and travels to Italy several times a year with her culinary travel company: Savory Adventures. Actually, she and her husband Barry lived in Venice for...

This from my good friends Marc-Antoine, Blandine & their beautiful daughter Lilou from France. I sent them the Burger bar cookbook (see below) because since they live in the South of France, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce them to fun American foods. Here is their update: “Hello...

My very good friend Janis has just completed her recipe and sent the following update. “So…I receive my cookbook with all the anticipation of a wanna be chef..and its a BAKING BOOK! Deflated, I had to wonder if Chef Gui was subjecting me to some conspirancy and warped sense of humor, since...

Today, I got invited by Creative Loafing fun and dynamic food crew to record a podcast: Food critic extraordinaire (and tough!) Brian Ries and wine expert and francophone foodie Taylor Eason. I got to the Creative Loafing’s warehouse/office/recording studio early and chit-chated with Brian Ries,...

Gateway Organic Farm presents Dinner in the Garden Sunday October 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm Nine Chefs, one vision – a true farm to table experience – harvesting and preparing a six course dinner with wine in our greenhouse overlooking the garden. Our Gateway Chef’s Tyson Grant of Parkshore Grill,...

Now that all the 10 Itinerant Cookbooks have been distributed to the root participants, the followers of the project have been anxiously awaiting the first feedback. And here it is thanks to my friend Esther of Gainesville. Here is her picture of the recipe she made and the great write-up of her experience...