Congrats to Mike Lamb and the amazing Kenan Fellows! Special thanks to Mimi Sheraton for her workshop on food writing. Now I know why chocolate tastes so great!

Really, it happened.  Ok, so it didn’t.  But this spoof made me laugh and then made me even more nervous for my daughter’s debut on Food Network tomorrow. That’s tomorrow, Aug 2, at 10p.  Watch, cheer, pray! Go, Chef Elisabeth!

I was lucky enough to be a guest at La Grenouille on the day it won three stars…quite well deserved. Delicious soup to begin with, and a frisee salad with smoked salmon and poached egg.  And I tasted my host’s quenelle, which were ever bit as good as the review suggests. Alas, no wine, had [...]