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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!
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 there, I spoke to Dave Mason of the SB New-Press, who wrote this excellent profile: ============ Great memories Great-nephew explores Julia Child’s life in ‘The French Chef in America’By DAVE MASON, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER Share Story “The person you saw on TV was…
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 sales are falling while sales of paper books are growing – and the shift is being driven by younger generations. More than 360m books were sold in 2016 – a 2% jump in a year that saw UK consumers spend an extra 6%, or £100m,…
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 surprisingly modest, and didn’t like to “toot my own horn,” as she’d say. She’d deflect and turn the conversation around to me, or someone else. This was endearing, but made it extremely difficult to interview her. I finally cracked the code by reading aloud from…
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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 Beard Award-winner, Nancy Silverton who will create a menu to go with an extensive wine tasting reception presented by the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association at Bacara’s new oceanfront restaurant, Angel Oak. This year’s Grand Dinner features wine pioneer Richard Sanford as the guide for…
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 the story of Julia’s visit to White House state dinners in 1967 (with President Lyndon B. Johnson) and 1976 (with President Gerald R. Ford and Queen Elizabeth at the bicentennial). As I researched these anecdotes, I realized that the role of food at the White…
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/
Merci Ottawa! They say: Every bit as entertaining, inspiring, and delectable as My Life in France, The French Chef in America uncovers Julia Child beyond her “French chef” persona and reveals her second act to have been as groundbreaking and adventurous as her first. For the rest of the story: https://ottawa.overdrive.com/media/2671252