In 2001, while state senator, Barack Obama appeared on Check, Please! Chicago. This is now a classic episode.
SWEET dessert NYC Food & Wine Show hosted by Ace of Cakes Duff Goldman
If you like desserts or chocolate, you will be blown away by this video. We sampled every one of them!
Next Iron Chef, Ep. 2: Chef Holly Smith out
Chef Holly Smith was booted in Episode 2, bringing the total women on the show down to 2. 6 male chefs remain. Wow, talk about gender disparity!
Momofuku Chef David Chang hates cupcakes, SF food scene
At the New York City Food & Wine Festival, Anthony Bourdain and Momofuku Chef David Chang ranted about their “I call bullsh–” dislikes. Surprisingly, David Chang hates cupcakes! And the San Francisco food scene, which he railed as being unimaginative. Wow! How can a person not like cupcakes? What’s up with that?
(More from New York Magazine)
Wall St. Journal: growth of food festivals
Wall Street Journal has an excellent article discussing the growth of food festivals, even in the current economic downturn (“Despite Down Economy, Large Apetite for Food Festivals,” by Pervaiz Shallwani).
The two oldest food shows — Aspen and South Beach — have now been joined by nearly a dozen others, including the two-year old Food Network New York City Food & Wine Show that we attended last week. The festival was packed!
Other food shows around the country: Chicago Gourmet Food & Wine Festival, Kohler Food & Wine Experience in Kohler, Wisc., Atlantic City, N.J., Eagle, Idaho, Kitsap, Wash., Shelburne, Vt., St. Joseph, Mich., Newport, R.I., Oxon Hill, Md., and Hudson Valley, N.Y. And that’s not even counting all the Food Network shows in different cities.
What this shows is that people still love to eat, even when the economy is down. The celebrity chef phenomenon and the Food Network have turned the food industry into an even bigger mega-industry where people vote with their mouths.
Chef Ming Tsai dim sum & disco brunch @ NYC Food & Wine Show
We’ve had some fabulous dim sum, but today’s dim sum feast hosted by Chef Ming Tsai was out of this world! Nearly 3 hours of mouth watering dim sum!