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WEB EXCLUSIVE:Strong Magic

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

If you are Craig Strong, executive chef at Studio at Montage Laguna Beach, hosting a dinner cooked over an open fire on the beach should be nothing short of transcendent. “I don’t think there is anything better than cooking a meal over …

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A Selection Of Precise Film Summaries To See | In The Middle Of …

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Cast includes Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton, Margo, Sam Jaffe, and Isabel Jewell. (132 minutes,’37). The Wedding Singer: Robbie has just been dumped, right before he was supposed to get married. … Cast includes Vincent Cost, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Chef, Carolyn Craig, and Leona Anderson. (75 minutes,’58). Try or Rock: Neil Simon’s supreme comedy of embarrassment, adjusted from Bruce Jay Friedman’s small tale “A …

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Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: Thanksgiving Survey: We Asked Bobby Flay …

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

We initiated the survey by asking Bobby Flay, owner/executive chef of nine restaurants, author of nine cookbooks, and star of several FoodNetwork shows, about his plans for Thanksgiving. The meal is at his house, about 50 people attend, …

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Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: Thanksgiving Survey: We Asked Bobby Flay …

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

We initiated the survey by asking Bobby Flay, owner/executive chef of nine restaurants, author of nine cookbooks, and star of several FoodNetwork shows, about his plans for Thanksgiving. The meal is at his house, about 50 people attend, …

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Craig's Stuffing – BigOven.com | SuperChef.org

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Best bet: Rattlesnake Club chef-owner to open Calif. restaurant. Detroit Free Press DINING: Rattlesnake Club chef-owner Jimmy Schmidt is to open a new restaurant, Morgan’s in the Desert, next month at the historic La Quinta . …

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The Gossiping Gourmet: Delights abound with new Studio chef – Coastline Pilot

Friday, October 30th, 2009
The Gossiping Gourmet: Delights abound with new Studio chef
Coastline Pilot
Craig Strong is the new executive chef at Studio at the Montage. Photo by Don Leach Drop-dead gorgeous! There's just no other way to say it.

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Cookbook Mania! Inaugural post: The Chinese Cookbook, by Craig …

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

From Craig I got a goldmine of information: Pierre Franey, Henri Soule, Andre Soltner, Richard Olney, Paul Bocuse, and the Troisgros brothers. And so on. At last count, I was up to 120+ cookbooks and collections of food writing. …

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While My Sautoir Gently Sweats: Craig Claborne

Monday, October 19th, 2009

His coverage launched the careers of many a chef. He began to review restaurants with a degree of rigor. He was one of the first, if not the first, to actually talk to the chef. A notion that was completely novel at the time. … Others, such as noted restaurateur Zarela Martinez, talked about what a huge impact Claiborne had on her personal and professional growth. Everyone left a little teary eyed, maybe even a little tipsy, but certainly more appreciative of Craig …

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tablehopper: letter from the tablehopper: June 23, 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

It was quite the who’s who of chefs, either in the kitchen (Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal, Craig Stoll, Richard Reddington, Quinn Hatfield, who flew up from Los Angeles, David Gingrass, Anne Gingrass-Paik, Jordan Grosser, … (Here’s hoping they all land in good places—chef Seis Kamimura is very talented, and the restaurant that snaps up the ever-gracious GM James Minch is one lucky business.) I have to hand it to Willie Brown, who was beaming like a proud papa (with a …

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Los Angeles – Squid Ink – Craig Strong's New Beachfront Kitchen

Friday, January 20th, 2012

(Studio’s previous chef, James Boyce, left for Alabama; Strong’s successor at The Langham is Michael Votaggio, previously executive chef at The Bazaar.) Only ten days after he started at Montage–that would be eleven days after he …

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