Category: Gourmet
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James Beard Foundation Awards winners
James Beard Foundation Awards, the US’s most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the food and beverage industries, announced its 2012 winners. During a ceremony hosted by chef and television personality Alton Brown at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, awards in the Restaurant and Chef and the Design and Graphics categories were presented, as well…
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Andrea Bocelli’s wines
Andrea Bocelli, Drew Barrymore, Antonio Banderas, Francis Ford Coppola, and AC/DC, all have in common the involvement in the winemaking business. The new entrant in this business is singer Andrea Bocelli. “Please join us in celebrating the things that truly make a good life: food, friends, la famiglia – and of course, fantastic wine,” said…
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Ice cream made to measure
Ephemeral ice cream bar An ice cream you like made from flavors and indredients of your choice? Before blooming all over Europe, this wish is turn into reality at a pop-up café opened by Magnum in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. From May 30 to June 24, on 23 rue Roi de Sicile in Paris,…
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Modernist Cuisine’ was named Cookbook of the Year at the James Beard Foundation Awards
Saveur magazine, Modernist Cuisine and Los Angeles Magazine are the big winners of the 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards, known as the ‘Oscars’ of US culinary world. Nathan Myhrvold‘s six-volume culinary encyclopedia Modernist Cuisine won the “Cooking From a Professional Point of View” category and was named the “Cookbook of the Year”. Amanda Hesser’s site…
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The fifth annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic debuts with limited-edition parasol
The fifth annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic will return on Saturday, June 2 taking place this year at Liberty State Park. Known as one of the summer’s most unique and glamorous star-studded social events, the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic will showcase the sport of polo with a new backdrop—less than 2,000 feet from the…
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Whisky tasting livestreamed from the world’s highest mountain
Drinking wiskey at the top of Mount Everest No Ordinary Mountain. No Ordinary Men. No Ordinary Whisky. To salute those who demonstrate true Pioneering Spirit and to support the Walking With The Wounded Everest team, whisky distillery Glenfiddich organizes on 10th May a whisky tasting at the top of Mount Everest. The fundraising event that…