Executive Chef Theda Lyden of the Harraseeket Inn will be cooking at the Grand Tasting on Harvest on the Harbor in Portland Main, October 21-23rd. Theda is a graduate of Ohio University with a BFA in Art Education. She has 30...
Read MoreI know I just gave you Jon-Paul’s Hutchins background on my 6-26-09 post. However, I wanted to be sure to post this salad that is absolutely wonderful. Of course, I’m partial to pistachios. Plus, this is easy and...
Read MoreJon-Paul Hutchins – A True Renaissance ManBefore I start Jon-Paul’s bio and recipe, I first need to apologize for my delay in writing. I had the pleasure of having lunch and interviewing Jon-Paul slightly over a year...
Read MoreWhen Brenda and I wrote “Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel,” we knew we had a wonderful selection of 90+ chefs from 19 countries and 17 states. Neither one of us had every seen such a varied number of chefs...
Read MoreI am grateful when a very well know chef makes the simplest food. This light and spicy dessert, by pastry chef Michael Laiskonis of Le Bernardin, has only four ingredients. I discovered it a year ago in Food and Wine...
Read MoreWriting about the warm and wonderful Jacques Pepin (see Sips 8/5/08) reminded me of a recipe of his that I love…simple and colorful.At the Rancho La Puerta’s organic gardens I recently picked red, yellow orange and...
Read MoreI met Jacques Pepin once. Even though he lived one town a way from me in Madison, Connecticut, we met for one minute in Lisbon–a minute I will never forget. We were being blown around in a cold,torrential rain storm, yet...
Read MoreDaniel Finger is the new Chef Tourant for Harborview Hotel & Resort on Martha’s Vineyard.A published co-author of Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel and Cooking Secrets, the Why and How… I was thrilled to...
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