Epoisses - photo courtesy of artisanalcheese.com Still to this day, one of my most memorable dining experience revolves around cheese. It occured in Tuscany, where my local friends Giulio and Pierre-the-herb-shepherd prepared an ultra-simple, 6-course dinner only made of local, rustic cheese, SuperTuscan...

Obviously, a top 10 list is by definition a big generalization. But it is fair to say that the following is pretty accurate in the restaurant industry. And of course, the assumptions in the following list vary with the kind, location and standards of the restaurants, as well as the level of professionalism...

I had a lot of fun yesterday with Jaden Hair of Steamykitchen.com. She graciously invited me, along with a couple of other local chefs to her segment on the TV show Daytime. We filmed on the top of the WFLA building in downtown Tampa and it was more like a party than a TV segment, really. We had cold...

Well, I certainly had a lot of fun cooking for some new clients in South Tampa. A small, intimate sit down dinner party of only 8 guests. My client is a wine collector and opened, among other fantastic bottles, a Jeroboam (double magnum) of 1987 Domaine Michel. If you don’t know about Domaine Michel,...

Anthony Bourdain is great fun. We all know that. Great chef, great writer, and a very interesting speaker too, as you will see in this video. With his usual humor and take-no-prisoners approach to food and travel, he talks about his travel experiences such as the famous Uzbek massage, eating as a submissive...

I recently participated in a Twitter tasting live at Barry and Debbie Frangipane’s house. The concept of a Twitter tasting live is as follow. Matt Horbound (aka @mmwine on twitter) and Ashley Routson (aka @thebeerwench) were broadcasting live over the internet. Matt is a wine expert and Ashley...

I stumbled upon a video of a series from the New York Public Library featuring Ferran Adria. I liked, of course, the tone of the interview, which despite being slightly but overly rhetorical at times, also was astonishingly insightful if you are, like me, interested in avant-garde cuisine and its master,...

  I will be doing my next culinary demonstration at the Rolling Pin Kitchen in Brandon (12 minutes from Tampa through the Crosstown Expressway) on June 3rd 2009.   The class is “From Farm to Fork: Cooking with Organics”. Basically, I will just pick up some organic vegetables from Gateway...

 You can find the complete list of the 2009 James Beard Award winners by clicking here. As I reported last month, the “cooking from a professional point of view” category was an extremely interesting one to follow, with Thomas Keller (The French Laundry), Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck), and Grant...

A few weeks ago, I joined Twitter on the advice of super food bloggerJaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen. It has been great. The hardest thing by far is to schedule actual “twitter sessions” during my work day, or I’ll just produce absolutely nothing and tweet all day. But anyway, the point...