Cookbooks : The best Italian cookbooks of all times!
Cookbooks : The best Italian cookbooks of all times! There are two Italian cookbooks everyone should have on their kitchen shelf and I really wish I had known about them earlier in my life. I love Italian food and I regard Italian cuisine as one of the top cuisines of the world. Why did it…
Fine Dining at The Broadmoor’s Romantic Penrose Room
Chef de Cuisine Maxwell Robbins’ Divine Tasting Menu at the Broadmoor’s Romantic Penrose Room! Maxwell Robbins, Chef de Cuisine at The Broadmoor‘s award-winning fine dining signature restaurant, the Penrose Room, has impeccable credentials. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., Robbins interned under culinary legend Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin, and…
BEST of Belarus food: Machanka with Draniki !
BEST of Belarus food: Machanka with Draniki ! Read our previous posting: “Best of Barbados food: Coocoo and Flying Fish!” Machanka and draniki, pork stew and potato pancakes, a staple of Belarus cooking. Apparently, pork became very popular back in the days of the Ottoman Empire as the farmers and peasants discovered that the Muslim…
La Colombe d’Or ~ Luncheon in the shadow of artists
Sometimes the spirit of a place is so strong that its influence sets the mood and tone. Such is the case with La Colombe d’Or, a restaurant which was frequented regularly by artistic greats such as Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani, Matisse, Miro, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Isadora Duncan, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf and the list goes on ……