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 this year’s show house. … [Read more...]
BEAUTIFUL IN BLACK AND WHITE — HOUSE BEAUTIFUL’S 4TH ANNUAL CHAIR CHASE
It's time to pile the truck with gorgeous chairs and hit the road -- House Beautiful's 4th Annual Chair Chase is on! This year Hollywood is the destination and black and white is the starring color combo. Jump to the bottom for the full how-to-play information. Here are SpecD's pairings of our favorite black and white classics and a selection of the House Beautiful … [Read more...]
Ex-Benedict – Vatican Breakfast Food
What did the pontiff have on the morning of his last day as the infallible leader of the Roman Catholic Church? Ex-Benedict. Each device has ha different installation process and once installed properly they function well. viagra price greyandgrey.com This action could lead to issues when it comes to sexuality! When you are suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol and … [Read more...]
BUTTERED RADISHES
As made by the incomparable Gabrielle Hamilton, James Beard Award-winning author or Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef and chef/owner of NYC's celebrated Prune restaurant. I was told the secret is to mix a tiny bit of cream into the melted butter, then dip in very cold radishes. Trim the bottoms in advance so they sit flat on the … [Read more...]
READERS’ CHOICE: 2012 BEST READ AND MOST LOVED RECIPES
Here at Spectacularly Delicious we strive to present a little bit of something for everybody -- in the USA and the big wide world beyond. With our 2012 readership growing in such far flung reaches as Fiji, Laos and Azerbaijan perhaps, just maybe, we are inching along toward that goal. So let's close out the year with a look at the most popular stories and recipes visited by … [Read more...]
ELSIE DE WOLFE’S RISOTTO TRIANON: THE ORIGINAL RICE-A-RONI
We owe so much to the wonderful Elsie de Wolfe, a.k.a. Lady Mendl... creator of professional interior design (with a little help from Henry Clay Frick and Stanford White), transforming the stink of Sutton Place's tanneries into one of Manhattan's most fashionable addresses, beloved for her charm and witticisms (on the Parthenon: "It's beige—my color!") and hostess … [Read more...]
BALSAMIC VINEGAR BALLS: FUN WITH MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY
Nothing says meth lab quite like a little foray into at-home molecular gastronomy. Digital scales weighing out grams of white powder, funnels, squeeze bottles and spoons for thermometer-controlled cooking and cooling. But no need to cover up the windows with old sheets. The delight provided by glistening jet black orbs of vinegar is 100% legal -- the ultimate expression of … [Read more...]
POPPED CHERRY TOMATOES
You know when you go a restaurant and the food seems simple and straight forward and yet it tastes so much better than you expected it ever could? Out in San Francisco Tyler Florence's Wayfare Tavern and El Paseo restaurants serve up these epiphanies plate after plate, night after night. Having access to the best meats, freshest vegetables and fine butters and oils and … [Read more...]
Helen Gurley Brown’s Zabaglione with Peaches and Meringue
Frothy and sweet. Smooth and pretty. Ripe, juicy and totally seductive. These qualities are dead-on for Helen Gurley Brown's recipe for Zabaglione. They also what any girl could be providing she had a little moxie -- and a subscription to Cosmopolitan magazine. The 1969 Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook is also true to her revolutionary world view. Like all … [Read more...]
LOBSTER NEWBURG: A NEIGHBORHOOD FAVORITE
This updated recipe for a Spectacular Lobster Newberg earns its "neighborhood favorite" status because I happen to live a mere block from the legendary Delmonico's Restaurant in lower Manhattan. The founder, John Delmonico, who first fired up his stoves in 1827, dragged back two white marble columns from the ashes of Pompeii to decorate the doorway of the unusual (but not … [Read more...]