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Continue reading →: tvsnack: top chef chicago chef-testants and debut
Hot off the PR wire is the line up of contestants for Top Chef Chicago. Chitown gossip mongers will be pleased to know chef Stephanie Izard, who abruptly closed her restaurant Scylla last year, is indeed one of the contestants. Season four premiers on Wednesday March 12th. Full press release…
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Continue reading →: hotsnack: 1st annual golden clog awards sold out!
The 1st Annual Golden Clog Awards. It started out as a good excuse to get everyone together for a beach side fiesta at the Raleigh during the downtime between events at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Normal logic says 1+1=2, but in the case of Tony Bourdain and…
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Continue reading →: snackwire.los angeles: bond street sushi opens west
Bond Street sushi opens westside out post! I mean way west, in Beverly Hills in the new Thompson hotel. Full press release after the jump.
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Continue reading →: liquidsnack: delamain’s $6,500 voyage
I had a seven-cognac dinner. It was reminiscent of my 11-Champagne lunch. The event was hosted by Delamain, the venerable French cognac house, to promote the arrival of Le Voyage: very old eau-de-vie cognac in a crystal Baccarat decanter, housed in a custom-made leather valise. Only 500 were made and…
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Continue reading →: hotsnack: speed dial monday
Monday is January 14th. Just an ordinary day – unless you’re expected to deliver a fabulous dinner on Valentine’s Day. Most restaurants open the reservation book 30 days in advance, thus Monday will be your first crack at a table on February 14th. Valentine’s Day is a bittersweet, love-hate kind…
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Continue reading →: snackwire.national: top chef the cookbook
Top Chef: The Cookbook coming in March 2008 from Chronicle Books, along with games, cutlery and more! Full press release after the jump.
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Continue reading →: snackwire.nyc: manscape
Part of a publicist’s job is to suggest stories to the media. There are obvious stories like openings where the pitch is purely informational. But once the news of an opening has passed – what next? Features and trends. Often a publicist will come up with an idea, put together…
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Continue reading →: snack60: ferran adrìa vs ferran adrìa
A friend passed this along. Fantastico! Not only is it entertaining, but it helps facilitate resolution #9- finish the "learn Spanish in two weeks!" cd’s you bought last summer. Does anyone want to roll subtitles in the comments for those of us with slight command of the Spanish Catalan language?
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Continue reading →: snackwire.nyc: $8,300 to learn italian with cesare casella
Learn to cook Italian. Learn to speak Italian. Visit Italy. Become the next Bill Buford. Are these on your list of things to do for 2008? If yes – you might want to consider spending the weekend filling out the application to snag one of six $8,300 scholarships to the…
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Continue reading →: hotsnack: galette des rois
Here at Snack we love all things Français – particularly buttery pastry with frangipane like la galette des rois – literally the cake of kings – but actually the twelfth night or Epiphany cake. The galettes are eaten on January 6th and tradition dictates that a ‘lucky bean’ is baked…






