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SHAREing the Spirit to Help Women with Breast & Ovarian Cancer

On September 12, 2018   /   Uncategorized  
SHAREing the Spirit to Help Women with Breast & Ovarian Cancer
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More than two dozen of NYC’s leading chefs and pastry chefs and dozens of wines and spirits producers will come together September 17 to help raise money to support women diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer at the 15th annual A Second Helping of Life to benefit SHARE.  Barbara Sibley, La Palapa, is the event ‘s Executive Chef. SHARE Cancer Support is a non-profit organization of survivors who volunteer to provide helpful peer support to women diagnosed with this life-changing diseases. SHARE also provides educational programs and a hotline. All program are bilingual. This event will take place Monday, September 17, at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. Info: www.sharebenefit.org  For information call (212) 937-5581. […]

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What Will You Be Eating in 2019? #TheNextBigBite

On August 30, 2018   /   Uncategorized  
What Will You Be Eating in 2019? #TheNextBigBite
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Curious what the next food and drinks trends will be for 2019? Why wait until January when everyone is talking about this topic. Get an early forecast at The Next Big Bite, What We Will Cook, Eat, Drink and Crave in 2019 — in Four One-Act “Bites”  presented by Les Dames d’Escoffier New York (LDNY) on Monday, October 1, 5:30-9 p.m. at New York Law School, 185 West Broadway. (link for information and tickets)   LDNY has assembled an impressive a lineup of speakers who have their fingers – and palates- on the pulse of the food and beverage industry, from […]

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Happy 40th Anniversary to Inn at little Washington!

On August 27, 2018   /   Uncategorized  
Happy 40th Anniversary to Inn at little Washington!
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I once spent the right night with the wrong man at the Inn at little Washington in the 1990s. It was oh-so-right because the meal was beyond fabulous; the rooms were decorated down to the littlest detail. Even the stair railings wore pretty sleeves. The big claw-foot bathtub in our room was a sensual experience for a long soak. I was thrilled to be checking off a place I always wanted to visit on my lengthy travel and dining bucket list (thanks to my boyfriend’s credit card).  Too bad “William” passed out after imbibing  copious amounts of wine and Armagnac at […]

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Prayers for Our Friends in Napa and Sonoma

On October 11, 2017   /   Uncategorized  
Prayers for Our Friends in Napa and Sonoma
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We’re heartsick over the devastating fires that are still burning in Napa and Sonoma counties and southern California. So many industry friends have been impacted, and we’re still learning which wineries have been destroyed.  I was just in Calistoga a few weeks ago celebrating at The Harvest Table with the local vintners. Despite the surprise heat wave, everyone was in a happy mood. And now this. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone. If you want to send help for evacuees, Public Relations Pro Kimberly Charles has set up a GoFundMe Page. Here are the link and message from Kimberly: Napa and […]

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Harlem’s Queen of Comfort Food: Melba Wilson

On May 13, 2016   /   David Ransom, Eat, Explore, INSPIRE, Melanie Young, RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW, Uncategorized  
Harlem's Queen of Comfort Food: Melba Wilson
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“The way I see it,” says Melba Wilson, “Soul food is the foundation of American comfort food.” She’d know. For Melba, a Harlem native, or as she likes to say “I am Harlem born, bred, and buttered,” owns one of  most influential soul food restaurants in New York City’s most exciting dining neighborhood, aptly named Melba’s. Like many children, she grew up watching her mother and grandomother cook and learned to love food, and soul food, in the process. But, Melba actually went into marketing and sales after school, anything from cosmetics to limo driving, finally entering the restaurant business […]

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Chef Marcus Samuelsson- Pushing Boundaries; Uniting Cultures

On March 28, 2016   /   David Ransom, Eat, Melanie Young, RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW, Uncategorized  
Chef Marcus Samuelsson- Pushing Boundaries; Uniting Cultures
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With almost two dozen restaurants scattered throughout the U.S., Bermuda, and across Scandinavia, a handful of cookbooks, and a growing list of media and philanthropic interests, Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s reach in the culinary world crosses multi-cultural boundaries Born in Ethiopia, adopted and raised in Sweden, from an early age Marcus was taught to appreciate and respect food by parents who were driven to instill those values in their children. “I feel like I’ve been cooking all my life,” he says. “Growing up, my sisters Anna and Linda and I spent summers in Smögen, on the west coast of Sweden. Every morning I […]

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