Book signings: Friday June 11 from 11 am to 3 pm at the Art Institute of Tampa. (click here to see a map) Thursday June 17 from 4 to 6 pm at the Rolling Pin in Brandon (click here to see a map) August 2-5 at the ACF National Convention in Anaheim, CA (click here to learn more)  Cooking demonstrations:...

Look, I really like chef Colicchio. I think he’s talented, has a great personality and I also like his approach to giving back. This week I posted his top 5 tips on Holiday cooking. They all make a lot of sense and you can watch them right here: Now, as much as I like Chef Colicchio, I really...

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,...

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...

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...

As an artisan, there is a time in life when you realize that your child is ready to participe in your activities, to share your passion and work with you. My son Julian is only 5, and I thought that I had a few years ahead of me to reach that point. But the recent “dinner in the organic garden”...

A few weeks ago, I posted about Padma Lakshmi’s very sensual commercial for Carl’s Junior. As a straight male, I reported that even though I wished she had used her good looks to sell artisan cheese instead of hamburgers dripping with sauce, the commercial was pretty pleasant to the eyes. Today,...

You don’t see, hear or notice them. But they are here and there nonetheless, all around you, discreet; incognito, even. They brush with illegality, potentially endangering their health and braving authorities for a good glass of milk, old-fashioned style, straight from the cow. They are raw milk drinkers.   The...