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Protesters Make Camp Inside Famous French Restaurant

Since October 23, chefs, assistant cooks, waiters, plongeurs, and dishwashers have camped out 24 hours a day in a corner of the French chic restaurant Georges, a favorite spot among the jetset. They have red flags and lounge on pink plastic sofas around the restaurant’s stylish bar. [see photo]
“French cuisine is famous throughout the world,” [...]

A Mini Lesson in French Cuisine

Don’t be fearful of dining in a French restaurant just because you don’t know the language.  Most French restaurants out there don’t serve escargot or ortolans. Many of the items listed on menu are common and familiar.  Here are some of the selections you might see, both in fine restaurants and neighborhood bistros, along with [...]

Roux: The Flavorful Thickening Agent

Roux is a thickening agent for soups, sauces, and stews that is often mentioned when making hearty Cajun and Creole dishes.  Pronounced “roo,” this flavorful fat and flour paste has roots dating back more than 300 years in French cuisine.  Roux is the basis for the classic white Béchamel sauce, which in turn, becomes the [...]

Dine on Haute Cuisine Suspended in Midair

Picture a metal table. Around the table are 22 guests snugly strapped into large, cushioned chairs. The table is secured to a platform suspended by metal cords from a glass roof that is connected to a crane, and the crane slowly lifts the table and seated guests about 450 feet into the air. Suspended above [...]

Julia Child’s Kitchen – the most famous Kitchen in Washington, D.C.

Foodies making a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. always look forward to eating at some of the city’s finest and most prestigious restaurants, such as Citronelle, Kinkead’s or the historic Old Ebbitt Grill.  You could spend months in our nation’s capital and the surrounding suburbs before running out of fine places to dine.   But one thing [...]

5 Most Talked About Eateries in Charleston

Image by huggingthecoast.com food blog via Flickr

Some say Charleston, South Carolina is the Foodie Capital of the South where you can dine on some of the best contemporary and Southern cuisine in the U.S.
In the 18th century when Charleston began trading with Bermuda and the Caribbean, many French, Scottish, Irish and Germans immigrated to Charleston, [...]

PBS Offers Julia Child Episodes Online

Perhaps the greatest chef of all time, Julia Child continues to inspire cooks from all walks of life with her own inimitable style, grace and humor.  The opening of the film Julie & Julia has caused a renewed interest in her cookbooks and TV lessons, so the Public Broadcasting Service is offering viewers the opportunity [...]

Danish Chef Voted Best in the World

Rene Redzepi, of Danish restaurant Noma, was voted best in the world by top chefs. Earlier this year, Redzepi captured the world spotlight when Noma was voted third-best restaurant in the world in the S. Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants, with only the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, and El Bulli in Catalonia, Spain, ahead [...]

Interview with Chef Pierre Thiam of Le Grand Dakar

If you’re in the mood for Contemporary West African cuisine, you simply must head to Le Grand Dakar in Brooklyn. Never had it, imagine rich grains, black-eyed peas, peanuts, tropical fruits all made to perfection by Chef (and author) Pierre Thiam. He has adapted the techniques he picked up at Two Rooms and Bang in [...]

The Queen of French Cuisine

The Film Julie & Julia is slated to be released August 7th which stars Meryl Streep (Julia Child) and Amy Adams (Julie Powell) in Nora Ephron’s (Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Bewitched) adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. According to [...]

New Book Challenges Declining Quality of French Cuisine

Michael Steinberger, wine columnist for Slate, has written a book about the decline of fine French dining.  Steinberger, an experienced connoisseur of fine food and wine, and a stalwart Francophile, claims that French haute cuisine is in a rut. In his new book, Au Revoir to all That:  Food, Wine and the End of France, Steinberger argues that the [...]

The Obamas : The new First Foodies

The Obamas aka First foodies

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The New First Eaters You know who the new First Family is, well as Karen Herzog over at The Journal Sentinel points out, the new First Family also happens to be the new First [...]