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Celebritys Friend: french laundry recipes thomas keller restaurants
Friday, November 27th, 2009A Cook’s Tour with Anthony Bourdain visiting Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry with his taste squad including Michael Ruhlman, Chef Eric Ripert of “Le Bernardin” and Chef Scott Bryan of “Veritas”. …
Best French Restaurants in the US
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009In Wheeling, Illinois-a 45-minute trek from downtown Chicago-Saigon-born Chef Roland Liccioni has been keeper of the flame at the renowned, 30-year-old Le Fran?ais since 2005, while in Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Nitzi Rabin …
Boston French Restaurants – Nouvelle Cuisine – Bistros and Brasseries
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009French restaurants in Boston – From Parisian-inspired haute cuisine to rustic Provençal and Mediterranean bistro fare, Boston’s French (and non-French) chefs will delight you; Petit Robert Bistro – Chef Jacky Robert serves up affordable …
Crozier, Gerard
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Chef Gerard Crozier, one of the first chefs ever taped for GreatChefs Television and featured ten years later in Great Chefs: theLouisiana new Garde, passed away on October 1. He was 63 years old. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed Crozier’s restaurant Chateaubriand Steakhouse in 2005, John Shoup, executive producer of Great Chefs and a long-time admirer [...]
Verge, Lucien
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Lucien VergeL'EscargotChicago IL While many French restaurants were transformed by the influence of nouvelle cuisine, Lucien Verge’s L’Escargot remained a bastion of the simple, honest food of provincial French cooking. In fact, customers were so thrilled by his cassoulet that they did not allow him to remove it from the menu, even during the hot [...]
Grangien, Patrick
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Patrick GrangienCafe Shelburne, Shelburne VThttp://www.cafeshelburne.com Although he claims he started cooking by “pure accident,” Patrick Grangien’s cuisine has evolved into world-class fare. Raised on the west coast of France, Grangien recalls going to market with his mother, who bought fish only if they were still “flapping on the table.” Little wonder that Grangien went on [...]
Banchet, Jean
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Jean Banchet taped at Le Francais and La Riviera Chicago, and Atlanta Jean Banchet first came to the attention of Great Chefs in the early ‘80s, when the call went out for nominations for chefs to be taped in Chicago. Over and over, nominations came back with Jean Banchet, then at his Le Francais restaurant [...]
Bonnot, Daniel
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Daniel Bonnot Consultant New Orleans – Nyons – Sao Paulo http://www.frenchcookingclasses.com ‚“It should be scahr-ee!‚” With his French accent, Daniel Bonnot would press his staff and friends, urging them on as they stretched cobwebs across the walls of his New Orleans bistro and sprinkled spiders over the tables. Plastic spiders. In a single day the [...]
Boulud, Daniel
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Daniel Boulud Daniel New York http://www.danielnyc.com Daniel Boulud´s career as a chef follows a family tradition. His grandfather started a small cafe in southeastern France nearly a century ago, and Boulud grew up on a nearby farm. At the age of fourteen, Boulud began his career in food with an apprenticeship at Nandro, a Michelin [...]
Lidy, Christophe
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Christophe Lidy Garcia & Rodrigues Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.garciaerodrigues.com.br When Christophe Lidy was born in Mulhouse, France, he was already on his way to an outstanding career in fine cuisine. His family had a strong cooking tradition, and the region in which he lived, German-influenced Alsace, is famous for its own regional cuisine. Wanting [...]
