San Francisco Chronicle has its list of Cheap Eats–Bargain Bites 2009. To qualify, the majority of entrees have to be $12 or less.
There’s also a list for good street food in SF.
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Gourmet Magazine bites the dust
Conde Nast announced that it is pulling the plug on Gourmet magazine, which has been an institution in the food world for 70 years. Remarkably, Conde Nast will continue with Bon Appetit, but will put Gourmet on the shelf. So very sad.
Does Next Iron Chef have enough women, Asians, or African Americans?
We couldn’t help but wonder why Next Iron Chef has only 3 women chefs, 2 Latino chefs, 1 Asian, but no African-American chefs. The largest group of chefs, 4 out of 10, are white males. That’s not a very diverse pool of chefs, considering that Iron Chef has only 1 female (Cat Cora), 1 Asian (Chef Morimoto). So does Iron Chef really expect us to believe that they could not attract a more diverse pool of contestant chefs? If American Idol can at least get half women and half men, so can Iron Chef.
Episode 1 — Next Iron Chef: Greenspan eaten by grasshoppers
OK, we have to admit: we were nervous. Really nervous. Our pick to win the Next Iron Chef–Chef Dominique Crenn–almost got eliminated on the very first show! She had to cook 2 dishes with sea cucumber, an ingredient she apparently had not ever seen before. Suffice it to say, Chef Dominique had no idea how to cook sea cucumber. If you are wondering what sea cucumber is, take a look:
Crenn was saved, though, by Chef Eric Greenspan, who had the unenviable task of cooking 2 dishes with grasshoppers. Yes, grasshoppers! (No picture needed.)
The other 8 chefs also had pretty out-there ingredients:
1. Seamus Mullen – stinky tofu (apparently smells like turd)
2. Amanda Freitag – eel
3. Jehangir Mehta – duck tongue
4. Brad Farmerie – darian
5. Nate Appelman – unlaid eggs
6. Jose Garces – cockscomb
7. Holly Smith – jellyfish
8. Roberto Trevino – chicken feet
The judges thought Nate Appelman’s dishes with unlaid eggs were the best. Appelman is a character, kind of like a Chuck Liddell for the kitchen. Appelman managed to insult many of the other chefs. During the first round, he told Dominique Crenn he “didn’t enjoy” her dish. He told Seamus Mullen that his salmon would have been better with acid. He also criticized Jose Garces’s chicken as too dry, even though the majority of other chefs voted it as the best first round dish.
The Next Iron Chef (NIC) starts Sunday
9 p.m. (ET), 8 (CT). Below are the 10 contestants introducing themselves.
Resident Foodies say: Dominique Crenn will be the Next Iron Chef. We’re all in with Crenn! She’s the chef on the top, right below. She’s French and the Executive Chef at Luce at the Intercontinental Hotel in–where else–San Francisco.
Charlie Rose interview David Chang, Momofuku
Interview from July 22, 2008. Yet David Chang still remains one of the hottest chefs in the US. Based in NYC, Chang has quickly built up a “Momofuku” empire– Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar. The first Momofuku cookbook will be out later this month, written by David Chang and NYT writer Peter Meehan. Can’t wait!