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Last weekend was a whirlwind 24 hours of food. Oh, yes, there was some wine (for Robert) thrown into the mix as well. Saturday I spent the day at Artisanal L.A. at the Cooper Building in downtown Los Angeles, and Sunday Robert and I went out to Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu for Los Angeles Magazine’s [...]
Najat Kaanache is the Wonder Woman of stagiaires/chefs-in-training. To date she has ’staged’ in the kitchens of Grant Achatz (Alinea), Thomas Keller (The French Laundry, Per Se), René Redzepi (Noma), and will end her stagiaire stints at Feran Adrià’s elBulli. A stage is an unpaid internship, or culinary apprenticeship, very common in the kitchens of [...]
Bring on more cheese, please!
Food memories, and, or nostalgia, are important to me — as my regular readers know. My own personal food memories are as essential to this blog as are the concepts of 100 miles and ‘living life locally.’ I recently attended an event here in Los Angeles that was a [...]