Kitchen Chat
Healthy Spice Heroes with Natasha MacAller
Let’s spice things up in 2019! Natasha MacAller, author of Vanilla Table: The Essence of Exquisite Cooking from the World’s Best Chefs along with Healthy Spice Heroes shares the benefits of spices. She is a fellow member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and we had a fun Kitchen Chat at one of the conferences. Did you know…
Read MoreKitchen Chat 2018 with Chef Jaime Laurita and Margaret McSweeney
Thank you foodie friends for making 2018 a great year for Kitchen Chat! And thank you, Chef Jaime Laurita for co-hosting Kitchen Chat with me in the award winning Viking and La Cornue Showroom at the Merchandise Mart Luxe Home. You and the Middleby Residential team designed two stunning showrooms! Make sure you also check out the…
Read MoreTasting Italy with America's Test Kitchen and National Geographic
“Italian food isn’t the result of a single culinary style, it’s a mosaic of many cooking traditions that stem from each province’s geography and climate, agriculture history and culture.” Jack Bishop, Chief Creative Officer at America’s Test Kitchen on PBS Come on a culinary journey with America’s Test Kitchen along with National Geographic. Their three…
Read MoreAbe Conlon: Best Chef of the Great Lakes
“Fat Rice is a symbol of abundance, generosity and hospitality.” Chef Abe Conlon Chef Abe Conlon’s intense passion for food began at an early age. Growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, Conlon developed an international palate influenced by his multicultural suburb with a vibrant Southeast Asian community along with his family’s Portuguese heritage. During school…
Read MoreCooking with Scraps: From Waste to Taste
Each year over 133 billion pounds of food goes wasted in the United States, with 40% of all food going into the garbage. Lindsay-Jean Hard is on a passionate mission to share ways to reduce this waste and increase sustainability by writing a cookbook called Cooking with Scraps. With a master’s degree in Urban…
Read MoreChef Carla Hall's Soul Food
Chef Carla Hall is on a Soul Food journey to “redefine soul food, to reclaim it.” Her new cookbook Carla Hall’s Soul Food shares her passion from the past and her plan for the present to make Soul Food an official cuisine. What a delightful honor to visit with Carla in her New York…
Read MorePotluck with Ali Rosen: Bring It!
Ali Rosen is redefining potluck one dish at a time. As she says, “If potlucks bring to mind covered dish dinners, it’s time to rebrand. Think of them instead as outsourced dinner parties: when everyone brings a dish to share, entertaining is as easy as setting the table.” As a Southern transplant living and working…
Read MoreGale Gand: A Passion for Pastries
“I didn’t pick the restaurant industry. It picked me.” Chef Gale Gand on Kitchen Chat Award winning pastry chef Gale Gand has a passion for pastries. She has won two James Beard awards, including one for Outstanding Pastry Chef and one for Outstanding Service for her former restaurant Tru. Gale Gand is a…
Read MoreThe Tastes of Canada
Oh, Canada! The flavors of Canadian cuisine will make your palate sing! In June, I was in Toronto with dear friends Jennifer Ettinger and Tommy Geraci to cover CTV Upfront. Some of the foodie favorites after the Red Carpet included miniature tacos. I enjoyed a kitchen chat with Chef Geoff Webb of the popular restaurant Sassafraz This is…
Read MoreSummer Fancy Food Show: Tastes and Trends You Should Know
It’s a wrap! I tasted the world at The 2017 Specialty Food Summer Show in New York City and was inspired by items I could have never imagined and intrigued by the trends and forecasts of this nearly $130 billion industry. The Specialty Food Association, a non-profit trade organization with a large community of food…
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