I didn't see this anywhere in the news. Merle Ellis, butcher, television host and most notably, the author of the excellent "Cutting Up in the Kitchen" has died. My grandmother, who taught me so much about cooking, was a big Merle Ellis fan and a good deal of her meat cooking technique came from him. [...]
Chefs and Influential Food Folks
This is where you’ll find all my blog entries about chefs (such as the estimable Grant Achatz) and influential food folks (think Harold McGee or Merle Ellis).
It seems to me that Thomas à Kempis said something like “Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.” And as such, it seems ironic that Gordon Ramsay finds himself as a possible contestant for “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares”. Perhaps Little Gordon may come to his rescue?
How does this guy have the time to do anything, much less blog? I'm not complaining of course — I am such an Achatz fan that it's almost silly (though, I promise, not in anyway stalkerish…just a big fan). Well worth the read as Grant is not only thoughtful and creative, but very articulate.
This is fantastic news. Jean Robert will be "the face" of Midwest Culinary. Sure, I wish this had happened prior to my graduation from school, but still and all, very awesome. More please.
Good Bruni backgrounder piece on the various Blue Ribbon properties in NYC. I thought this was especially good: Here’s another interesting fact about the Blue Ribbon brood: the Bromberg brothers — Eric, 45, and Bruce, 41 — have apparently never hired a cook who immediately and directly took charge of a Blue Ribbon kitchen. They [...]
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Sad news posted yesterday by Grant Achatz on eGullet and reported in today’s New York Times Diner’s Journal: Grant Achatz, the chef of Alinea in Chicago, released this statement through his publicist: “I wanted to personally report that I have been very recently diagnosed with an advanced stage of squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth. [...]
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