"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
Continue ReadingAppetizers, Centerpieces and Flower Arrangements, Fish and Seafood, Tabletop: Plates and Serving Pieces
This magnificent Lobster Cascade centerpiece rising from a platter of Oysters à la Russe Impérial is lifted directly from TV’s classiest soap opera, Downton Abbey. Poor Lady Edith, jilted bride, humiliated and bed-bound with despair, bleakly regards a spinster’s future. Whilst recognition of her reduced status tearfully dawns, staff scurry to erase all traces of the annihilated [...]
ALL RECIPES, Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Relish
A while back an unexpected cardboard box from San Francisco arrived just before Christmas. Inside was a passel of humongous Dungeness crabs on ice which were promptly transformed into the Silver Palate’s sublime crab mousse. Filling out the shipment was a bunch of large Meyer lemons plucked from my friend’s small backyard on the sloping [...]
Could there ever be a more tantalizing recipe name than Triumph of Gluttony cake? I think not. Director Luchino Visconti’s 1963 classic The Leopard stars Bert Lancaster as Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina; Claudia Cardinale plays Anglica, a maiden so ripe she practically exudes sweet juices from her heaving bosom, and studly bad boy aristocrat [...]
ALL RECIPES, Appetizers, Charcuterie, East Hampton
The gold-leaf thin slices of Prosciutto de Parma ethereally draped over sweet summer melon. Nutty, satiny smooth Jamon Iberico or salty shards of Smithfield ham tucked in soft buttered buns. The noble swine, clown of the barnyard, terror of the forest, generous provider of robust haunches that yield to the alchemy of master curers, we are indebted for [...]
ALL RECIPES, Appetizers, Celebrity Recipes, Charcuterie, Dessert, East Hampton, Fish and Seafood, Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Relish, Sauces, Sullivan Family 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 [...]
ALL RECIPES, Main Dishes, Party foods, Sullivan Family Recipes
Long has the Crown Roast of Hot Dogs haunted my culinary imagination. It first caught my eye ages ago in my hometown paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; the recipe and photograph clipped but never actually prepared. Years later this refrigerator magnet found its way into the kitchen with the vintage photograph depicting a most [...]
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