"I don't care about the money -- I just want Lee back!" cried this rueful Scott Thorson (the late, great Peter Croce) on a balmy Greenwich Village Halloween long ago, as seen in this New York Native's full-page photo headlined Night of Beasts and Fairies. No doubt jilted lover Thorson also mi
Continue ReadingHaute cuisine meets high design at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, where House Beautiful is teaming up with KitchenAid to host a series of innovative culinary events with renowned chefs throughout the month of May in the stunning Christopher Peacock-designed kitchen at the famed show house. Ki
Continue ReadingThe new How to Make Carrot Flowers (part 2) video is the sequel to our first How To Make Carrot Flowers. This Youtube video has received nearly a half million views. Lots of people like it. This idea for these groovy blossoms was served up on a plate in Paris. Literally -- at a small bistro the
Continue ReadingCroquembouche: The dessert that "combines elegant traditionalism with an imaginative modern approach to the elaborate form of styling."* It's not quite fair to say that Croquembouche is simple, but the effort-to-reward ratio is off the charts, thus making the endeavor well worth the undertakin
Continue ReadingThe lordly Kugelhopf Deluxe is a magnificent and airy yeast cake. Studded with brandy-soaked golden raisins and shingled with sliced almonds, this traditional Alsatian pastry is cousin to the brioches of France, the dense stollens of Germany and Italy's chewy panettones. But why "Deluxe?" In
Continue ReadingThe inaugural Wild Wild Rice - a stir-fried wild rice recipe made all the more savage with a lawless quantity of additions-- made its debut at a swank dinner party two dining rooms ago. (The storied red dining room on West 11th St.) And how was it? Look no further than the ecstatic reaction of gl
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“I don’t care about the money — I just want Lee back!” cried this rueful Scott Thorson (the late, great Peter Croce) on a balmy Greenwich Village Halloween long ago, as seen in this New York Native’s full-page photo headlined Night of Beasts and Fairies. No doubt jilted lover Thorson also missed Liberace’s (or Lee, [...]
Celebrity Recipes, Famous Chefs, Kitchen Gadgets
Haute cuisine meets high design at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, where House Beautiful is teaming up with KitchenAid to host a series of innovative culinary events with renowned chefs throughout the month of May in the stunning Christopher Peacock-designed kitchen at the famed show house. KitchenAid is the exclusive kitchen appliance sponsor of [...]
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The new How to Make Carrot Flowers (part 2) video is the sequel to our first How To Make Carrot Flowers. This Youtube video has received nearly a half million views. Lots of people like it. This idea for these groovy blossoms was served up on a plate in Paris. Literally — at a small bistro [...]
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Croquembouche: The dessert that “combines elegant traditionalism with an imaginative modern approach to the elaborate form of styling.”* It’s not quite fair to say that Croquembouche is simple, but the effort-to-reward ratio is off the charts, thus making the endeavor well worth the undertaking. Croquembouche’s translation, basically “crunch in the mouth,” is spot on. The tower [...]
The lordly Kugelhopf Deluxe is a magnificent and airy yeast cake. Studded with brandy-soaked golden raisins and shingled with sliced almonds, this traditional Alsatian pastry is cousin to the brioches of France, the dense stollens of Germany and Italy’s chewy panettones. But why “Deluxe?” In the NYT’s recent profile on the cheesecake baking Nuns of New [...]
The inaugural Wild Wild Rice – a stir-fried wild rice recipe made all the more savage with a lawless quantity of additions– made its debut at a swank dinner party two dining rooms ago. (The storied red dining room on West 11th St.) And how was it? Look no further than the ecstatic reaction of [...]
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