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Italy With My Son 2012 – Our Grand Finale at La Pergola in Rome
My trip to Italy with my son this past spring was full of wonderful highlights and wonderful food. It was fitting that in the land of opera, we finished it with one of the highest notes of all....
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Amaranta – Terrific in Toluca
Who says fusion cooking is bad? Anyone who thinks that has never experienced the cooking and foods of Mexico. Mexican cuisine is a glorious example of how wonderful fusion can be when given enough...
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Paxia – Daniel Ovadía’s Passionate Paean to Mexico
Chef Daniel Ovadía presenting at the Inaugural Mesamerica Congress in Mexico City On the second day of the inaugural Mesamerica Congress in Mexico City in July, the ambitious and talented young chef...
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Fabio’s Fabulous Fiola
I missed him at Maestro, but I’ve been a fan of Fabio Trabocchi’s for a few years now and have followed him from Fiamma to the Four Seasons and finally to Fiola. Few prepare food better or more...
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Sunday Photo – Blanca
Chef Carlo Mirarchi of Blanca I’ve been a fan of Carlo Mirarchi’s cooking for some time now and thoroughly loved the tasting menu at Roberta’s two years ago. I was fortunate to have been invited to...
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Happy New Year!!!
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View ArticleThe Docsconz Top 25 Restaurant Meals of 2012
View Larger Map For the past few years, at the end of each year, I have composed a list of my favorite restaurant meals of of that year. Obviously, this is a totally subjective list based upon my...
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A Little Love For Le Cirque
It had been quite a while since I had last been to Le Cirque, one of the legendary restaurants of NYC culinary history. I was there a few years ago for a party during the StarChefs ICC, but the last...
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CityZen – A Reunion With Class
Chef Eric Ziebold The only thing better than a great meal for its own sake is a great meal shared with friends. I recently had an opportunity to do that in Washington D.C. when I organized a...
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David Muñoz and his Daring DiverXo
We live in a world of trends. They get started by one or a few and once they get going it is sometimes difficult to separate the creators from those who follow. Fusion cooking, that is the deliberate...
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De Librije – Dutch for Delightfully Delicious!
Well, delightfully delicious is not the literal translation of De Librije from the Dutch, but based upon my recent meal at the restaurant and night at their hotel, perhaps it should be. De Librije...
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Calling All Wine Collectors!!! Devine Intervention Needed!!!
Starting today and running through April 7th, there is an incredible opportunity to augment your growing collection with some otherwise impossible to find bottles and others that are merely hard to...
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Chile – A Land of the Exotic and the Familiar – An Overview
Chef Rodolfo Guzman of Boragó in Santiago, Chile Chile, the country, first came to my attention a couple of years ago when I saw Rodolfo Guzman of the Santiago restaurant Boragó speak at the StarChefs...
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Boragó – Tasting Chile’s Ancient Roots With A New Vision
Chile’s neighboring country of Peru has long been known for the seemingly infinite variety of native ingredients, many of which have been adopted and adapted by other cultures as part of the Columbian...
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Empanadas and Pork- A Day of Glorious Eating Continues at Rancho Doña Maria
The old saying is “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” That can also be applied to restaurants – at least some times. Left entirely to my own devices, I have to admit its highly unlikely that I...
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Sunday Photo – Grape Stompin’
At Viñedos Alcohuaz high up in the Andes overlooking Chile’s amazingly blue skied Valle de Elqui they make wines the old fashioned way. Amongst the ancient techniques they use is the time honored...
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Aqui Está Coco Means Here is Great Seafood
By the time we left Rancho Doña Maria to drive back to our hotel in Santiago I really didn’t want to think about more food, let alone eat it. We had already had a wonderful seafood breakfast at the...
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A Mother’s Celebration at Cafe Boulud
It wasn’t yet Mothers Day or my wife’s birthday. Those would both be the following day. It was, however, the day to celebrate both as well as two bon voyages. We drove down to New York City to take...
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L’Air du Temps- Much More than a Beautiful Scent
Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre I first became enthralled by Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre’s cooking at the 2011 StarChefs International Chefs Congress in New York City. His cooking was beautiful, alluring and...
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Fermented Elements – Dinner With Matthias Merges and Kevin Farley (The...
Fermentation has been around for as long as humans have been eating food and drinking beverages other than water. Many cultures have used it to create their most iconic foods. It is only recently,...
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