GOURMET HIGHWAY: Chef Dean Fearing...

He may be the best By Doc Lawrence. (DALLAS, TEXAS): The creator of Fearing’s Restaurant and its “Elevated American Cuisine – Bold Flavors, No Borders,” Chef Dean Fearing has developed one of the hottest dining concepts in the country. Chef Dean Fearing & His Favorite Knife Named “Restaurant of the Year” and “Table of the Year” by Esquire Magazine in 2007 and No. 1 in 2009 for Hotel Dining in the...

WELL BEING: Foodies With Celiac Disease Discover D...

By Marsha Fottler. May is National Celiac Awareness Month, a good time to learn more about this disease and the food revolution it started. There are some two million people in the United States who have celiac sprue and require a life-long gluten-free diet. Until recently dining out was a nightmare for these people since gluten-free meals hardly existed. Cooking at home wasn’t any better. Today because of the sudden...

New York City On The Cheap, Part One...

By Chef Judi Gallagher First, in full disclosure, the Upper West Side of Manhattan is like home. I grew up in Connecticut, jokingly called a suburb of New York. My relatives came from Westchester, Manhattan, New Rochelle and Yonkers. Thus, Zabar’s, that amazing store of smoked salmon cases, pickled herring, barrels of fresh roasted coffee and cinnamon Danish, could be my corner market. I feel at home when I pass H &...

Kitchen Remedy for Allergy Eyes...

By Marsha Fottler. Along with the darling buds of May comes the rain of pollen meaning that legions of people routinely wake up with red, itchy, swollen eyes. Allergy pills and eye drops help, especially the prescription ones, but there are side effects, most significantly dopiness that makes you crave a nap. There’s also relief as near as your kitchen inside your refrigerator. My dermatologist revealed a secret to...

The Wise Five: What Cooking Shows Taught Me...

The Wise Five: What Cooking Shows Taught Me By Herb Gardener The irony hit me this morning — my profligate food programming habit began with The Frugal Gourmet. After thousands of hours hypnotized by and salivating over cooking shows (I even developed a brief crush on Claudine Pepin, daughter of Jacques, in the 1990s) what tangible lessons or discoveries linger in my memory? Well, I offer the following five observations...

As The Cookie Crumbles...

By Anna Dantoni. Joanne Fluke’s mystery/recipe novel, Cream Puff Murder is one in a series set in the fictitious little town of Lake Eden, Minnesota. It’s freezing-cold winter which is good for business at The Cookie Jar, a bakery and coffee shop owned by Hannah Swensen. People in Minnesota drink a lot of coffee during the snow-clad months and they tend to enjoy something sweet with it. Hannah has the economic recipe...

When Life Hands You A Surprise Pie...

By Chef Judi Gallagher. National Pie Championship 2010 When the American Pie Council called and asked me to be a judge at the 2010 pie competition at Champions Gates in Orlando, Florida I was elated. I love pie; my lifetime culinary goal, in fact, is to discover America’s best apple pie. So far, Mom’s Apple Pie in Sebastopol, California is number one on my list. I obsess about crust. My preference is for a flaky lard...

Suddenly Succulents...

By Marsha Fottler. Suddenly, succulents are everywhere. For years these tough and textural plants were consigned to residential patches of dessert that couldn’t support a stick. You’d see them in the Southwest as clustered borders (echeveria) and tall sculptural foundation plants (aloe, senecio, agave). In the South and Northeast hardy clumps of rubbery sedum poke through stone walls or rocky garden pathways. Succulents...