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The Daily Dish Archive
January
26, 2002
The International Association of Culinary Professionals will hold
its 24th Annual Conference in San Diego April 17-20. email: iacp@hqtrs.com
or www.iacp.com
January
24, 2002
The
Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil...Robert Mondavi says it all, "A must for
anyone who loves wine, whether they are a pro or an amateur. Thorough, authoritative,
and entertaining."
January 22, 2002
Julia's
Kitchen (as in Julia Child) is the new dining room in Napa, California at COPIA:
The American Center for Wine Food & The Arts. Call 707.265.5700 for reservations
to enjoy Chef Mark Dommen's food, including a Chef's Tasting Menu of five courses
with wine pairings.
January 20, 2002
Walter Glaser
waxes poetically about a small Mexican town named Guanajuato
located 221 miles north-west of Mexico City.
January
19, 2002
Walter Reisender offers What's
New in Business Travel, as part of his ongoing contribution to Sally's Place
travelers. Learn the latest about airlines, hotels, restaurants and other words
of wisdom.
January 18, 2002
Stuffed...Adventures
of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk is a book about family as it relates
to food. The series of vignettes tells of Volk's everyday life of a Jewish family
in New York.
January 17, 2002
The sixth
annual Premiere Napa Valley®, a midwinter barrel auction for the wine trade, is
scheduled for Saturday, February 23, 2002 from 10:30 to 4:00 pm at the Culinary
Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California. For information:
www.napavintners.com .
January
14, 2002
Prolific cookbook author Kitty Morse (and Danielle Mamane) bring
us The
Scent of Orange Blossoms. Sephardic cuisine from Morocco is chronicled from
Fez's once-thriving Sephardic community. Descriptions of customs, special events,
typical menus and beautiful color photography help make this book special.
January
13, 2002
Parmigiano-Reggiano (the king of Italian cheeses) should be broken
or wedged off for eating, not sliced. This is because slicing crushes the amino
acid crystals; thus, the cheese will taste better when allowed to fall off in
jagged chunks. Such information can be found in Parmigiano!:
50 New & Classic Recipes With Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese by Pamela Sheldon
Johns.
January 11, 2002
Caprial Pence (of Caprial's
Bistro in Portland, Oregon) and her pastry chef, Melissa Carey, go for "flavor
and substance" in Caprial's
Desserts, a volume of master recipes and variations for the desserts that
keep her Bistro customers coming back for more. These are simple desserts, mostly
old-fashioned, the kind you wish your grandmother passed on to you.
January
10, 2002
Our Hilton
Head, South Carolina restaurants have been completely updated by Monty Preiser.
This destination location is a popular tourist spot!
January
8, 2002
Chef/Instructor Robert Reynolds offers 5-day courses of study in
Niort, France between March 18 and May 6, 2002. Six students per session will
market, plan, cook daily, and visit the sources of food and wine. Participants
get a feel for France, its people, and cuisine. The cost of $2250 a week includes
hotel. Email Robert at rowbear@attglobal.net
or phone 503.233.1934.
January 7, 2002
Renowned
chef Charlie Palmer has opened Dry Creek Kitchen in the Hotel
Healdsburg in Healdsburg, California. He is known for Aureole in New York
City and Las Vegas. Intimate wine country dining at lunch and dinner focus on
Sonoma's bounty of food and wine.
January 6, 2002
Connecticut-born
clergyman Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was a food reformer whose principles appealed
to many mid-nineteenth-century Americans. Known now for the brown cracker that
bears his name, Graham emphasized vegetarianism, temperance and sexual abstinence.
January
5, 2002
Plan to attend the Mendocino
Crab & Wine Days January 25-February 3 in Mendocino, California. This week-long
festival celebrates two of Mendocino's products with winemaker dinners, crab feeds,
crabcake cookoff contest, cooking classes, crab cruises, and more. A more beautiful
coastline is not to be seen!
January 4, 2002
Sally's Place will
soon be offering tours! Would you be interested in a food tour of Paris? a wine
tour of Tuscany? Please fill out our new
survey and tell us what you'd like to do.
January
3, 2002
Need to lose weight after the holidays? "Most Americans eat far
too few foods with any color in them," says David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., author of
What Color
is Your Diet? This weight loss volume counts colors instead of calories.
January
1, 2002
Happy New Year!
Note: This information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the businesses in question before making your plans.
