Posts by Alex
Breaking: Danny Meyer wins 2017 Julia Child Award!
Food Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer wins the Julia Child Award By Maura Judkis July 18 at 9:00 AM Union Square Hospitality Group’s Danny Meyer is the newest Julia Child Award winner. (Photo by Melissa Hom) Julia Child taught restaurateur Danny Meyer one of the most important lessons he’s ever learned about hospitality. It was many years…
Read MoreThanks to Bobby Flay and Geof Drummond for a great Food Lab weekend at Stony Brook Southampton
The start of a great weekend in the Hamptons: Alex and the TV producer Geof Drummond with Bobby Flay, opening night of the 2017 Food Lab at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton. A delicious time was had by all!
Read MoreSanta Barbara News-Press profile of Alex
I had a great time at the Santa Barbara Food and Wine Weekend, hosted by Bacara (“Be-CAR-ah”), a beautiful resort, with proceeds going to The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. We and drank extremely well, and talked all weekend. For future planning: a highly recommended event! In advance of my talk…
Read MoreEbook sales continue to fall as younger generations drive appetite for print
Well, here’s an unexpected bit of good news for those of us who love physical books … Nielsen survey finds UK ebook sales declined by 4% in 2016, the second consecutive year digital has shrunk [In England] Readers committed to physical books can give a sigh of relief, as new figures reveal that ebook…
Read MoreQ&A with Forbes Travel Guide for the Santa Barbara Food & Wine Weekend
Julia Child’s Grandnephew Remasters The Art Of French Cooking Is there a personal anecdote you could share from your time working on the memoir? Julia and I shared a sense of humor, a love of movies and politics, and had a great time working on her memoir. But it wasn’t easy at first. Julia was…
Read MoreMy new book about Paul Child’s photos of France (and Julia) out in Oct!
Guess who’s on the cover of the @thameshudsonUSA fall catalog? Look for France is Feast this fall https://amzn.to/2kOlRcZ @APFrenchChef
Read MoreAs JC would say: Joyeuse journee de la femme (Happy Women’s Day)!
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Read MoreJoin me in Santa Barbara, Apr 7-9, to benefit the Julia Child Foundation
Santa Barbara’s Food and Wine Weekend benefits Julia Child foundation Feb 27, 2017 Updated 20 hrs ago The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts and Bacara Resort & Spa host the fourth annual Santa Barbara Food & Wine Weekend on April 7-9. Headlining this year’s festivities is Los Angeles chef and multiple James…
Read MoreRobb Report interview about my history of food at the White House
I have begun to research a book about the history of food at the White House — from George Washington and his celebrated slave-chef Hercules to the foodie Obamas, and perhaps the taco-bowl munching Donald Trump. I came to this story by way of Julia Child, naturally. In THE FRENCH CHEF IN AMERICA, I recount…
Read MoreWho is celebrity chef Ted Allen’s mystery relative on “Twice Removed” podcast? Have a listen
Here’s the second episode of TWICE REMOVED, a great, fun, informative new podcast, courtesy of Gimlet Media … and if you listen to the end, you’ll find out who Ted Allen is related to, and how the reunion went … https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1182594071 https://gimletmedia.com/episode/2-ted-allen/
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