The Daily Dish Archive
June 27, 2001
New York Times Best Seller Kitchen Confidential by Chef Anthony Bourdain is now out in paperback with a new preface. Quite interesting to hear the author talk about his reactions to the original book...his adventures in the culinary underbelly. Bourdain also authored Bone in the Throat.
June 24, 2001
Goosecross Cellars in Yountville, California in the Napa Valley offers a free basic wine class each Saturday (rain or shine) at 11:00 a.m. This 1 1/2 hour class taught outside overlooking the vines is a perfect start for a day of touring the wine country. Goosecross bottles Chardonnay, Cabernet and Sauvignon Blanc.
June 21, 2001
Food connoisseur Peter Mayle has done it again! French Lessons is the latest work by the author of A Year in Provence. In this book Mayle gleefully eats his way through the rest of France with knife, fork and corkscrew.
June 19, 2001
Rally 'round the camp fires campers: Russell Stover has a new product...S'mores! Two marshmallow and graham cracker cups covered in milk chocolate.
June 16, 2001
Australian winery Swaying Willow has produced the world's first diet chardonnay! The wine retains its traditional fruit and oak flavor but contains only a third of the calories of a standard glass of chardonnay at 1% alcohol.
June 13, 2001
2001 Summer Restaurant Week in New York City is June 25-29. More than 150 of the city's best restaurants will offer prix-fixe, three-course lunch menus for $20.01.
June 11, 2001
Napa Valley Wine Auction continues tradition of generosity--raises astounding 7.6 million for local charities.
June 9, 2001
Paris, For Classic and New-Vogue French Food by Walter Reisender reports on 8 of the best dining venues in the "City of Lights."
June 7, 2001
French Laundry chef/owner Thomas Keller will have another restaurant...this time in New York City. It will be in the new 80 story AOL Time Warner headquarters building on Columbus Circle...but not for about 3 years. Stay tuned!
June 5, 2001
Popular California chef Cindy Pawlcyn and her partner, Michael Wolf, have opened the Miramonte Restaurant and Cafe in St. Helena, in the Napa Valley of California. Foods and beverages of the Americas (North, Central and South America) are featured including rabbit tostada, Chinatown duck burger and lemon maple glazed squab.
June 3, 2001
The Taste of Japan--Not All Raw Fish and Rice by Walter Reisender reports on Kaiseki, the haute cuisine of Japan, and 8 dining venues in Tokyo.
June 1, 2001
Ruth Reichl's latest book Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl's transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food. Reichl is editor in chief of Gourmet and the author of the best selling Tender at the Bone.