by Lucy Gordan | Aug 9, 2012 | Food, Food blog
THE FIRST FLEMISH CHEF AWARDED 3 MICHELIN STARS text and photos © Thanks to the New York office of the Flanders Tourist Board, last May Lucy Gordan, the Rome Bureau Chief of Epicurean-Traveler.com, visited Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp and Mechelen. In Bruges...
by Lucy Gordan | Jul 9, 2012 | Food, Food blog
Text © 2012 On February 5th, Felice Sgarra, a Pugliese from Andria, was in Milan to participate in Identità Vent’anni, a day dedicated to chefs who are not yet 30 years old. He just made it under the wire because the next day was his 30th birthday and that of...
by Lucy Gordan | May 9, 2012 | Food, Food blog
The New President of “Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe” in Italy text © 2012 Andrea Sarri’s restaurant “Agrodolce” is situated on the seafront at the quay of the port of Oneglia in the Ligurian city of Imperia on the Italian Riviera. It boasts one Michelin...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 9, 2012 | Food, Food blog
©2012 This hand-clapping rhyme is recited by thousands of English-mother-tongue children to count and eliminate fists when it comes to choosing who will be “it” — the leader, the hunter, the counter at the start of an outdoor game. Instead the number 4,000 refers to...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
AUTHORS of FEEDING THE DRAGON Interview ©2011 While in 2001 Nate Tate, today aged 30, was one of the first Texas college students to study abroad at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, his younger sister Mary Kate, 26, visited him there, and the two developed a...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
THE PIONEER OF AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE IN USA Marisa and Tony May photo by Robert Caplin text ©2011 by Lucy Gordan Tony May has been in the restaurant business in New York City for half a century. He is a “gastronomic ambassador and professor,” a living legend,...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
TONY MAY’S DAUGHTER, DISCIPLE, AND PARTNER text ©2011 I always begin my interviews with “food people” with the question: what are your earliest memories of food? MM: Pastina in brodo, which is still one of my favorite dishes, and nutella spread on bread. We’d...
by Lucy Gordan | May 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
SWISS CHEF OF THE YEAR 2006 Housed in a villa of the elegant suburb of Bruderholz on the top of a hill overlooking Basel, Tanja and René Graf Grandits’s peaceful and understated restaurant, Stucki, has one Michelin star and 17 Gault Millau points. Here,...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
TWICE ITALY’S BEST PASTRY-CHEF IS FROM JAPAN Interview ©2011 Tatsuya Iwasaki was born 34 years ago in the Japanese city of Saitama located10 to 15 miles north of Tokyo. After obtaining his diploma as a professional chef from the Hanasaki...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
SWISS CHEF OF THE YEAR 2011 Interview ©2011 Born on September 14, 1968 in southeast Bavaria, Peter Knogl has worked his way up the career ladder almost always at Michelin-starred restaurants in Germany, Spain, London, and Switzerland. Since 2007 he has...
by Lucy Gordan | Feb 9, 2011 | Food, Food blog
NEW YORK’S TOP “ROMAN” CHEF Text ©2010 Photos ©2010 by Ellen Silverman Danny Meyer at Maialino Daniel (“Danny”) Meyer, born in St. Louis, Missouri, was raised there, in France (Paris and Bordeaux) and Italy (Rome) because his father owned a travel...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 10, 2010 | Food, Food blog
In 1989 “Sal” De Riso, already an accomplished chef, opened the Pasticceria De Riso on the sea front of Minori, a town on the Amalfi Coast, and his laboratory in Tramonti, seven kilometers inland. Within a few years his pastry shop was one of the most popular...
