http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off Food and Wine Editors' Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:48 -0500 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:04:56 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations What can someone like me, a girl living in Queens, NY, possibly learn from a bunch of Park Avenue socialites with names like Muffie Potter Aston? A lot, I learned, after I read Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations, a new book by New York Times columnist ... Entertaining Cookbooks Holidays Events Style Recipes News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:04:56 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations Alessandra Bulow http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/13/Reinventing-Dinner-Theater  The dinner-theater concept sounds like a throwback, but director Marlo Hunter is trying to make it hip again with Eating Their Words. Hunter enlists noteworthy writers and actors for an evening of short plays to be performed at a top NYC restau... Entertaining Cooking Menus Chefs Events Restaurants News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:02:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/13/Reinventing-Dinner-Theater Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/25/A-Gordon-GekkoInspired-Cocktail-Party Eighties Revival Special Part 3: Gordon Gekko, the Wall Street financial villain who symbolized the decadence of the Eighties, is back: Director Oliver Stone has just started filming Wall Street 2. Relive Gekko’s excess with luxe hors d’... Entertaining Recipes Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:17:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/25/A-Gordon-GekkoInspired-Cocktail-Party Ratha Tep http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/6/DIY-Pig-Roast The recent obsession with learning to butcher  and cooking an entire animal from snout to tail meant that my Fourth of July weekend was packed with pig-roast invitations, rather than the typical burger-and-beer barbecues of years past. When my f... Entertaining Cooking Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:21:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/6/DIY-Pig-Roast Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/6/25/Food--Wine--Etsy Today on Etsy.com, the world's largest online market for all things handmade, F&W's amazing style editor, Jessica Romm, picks out some great things to buy for a clambake, including nautical-themed items like this sailboat (left). Over the... Entertaining Design Blogs Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:07:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/6/25/Food--Wine--Etsy Emily Kaiser http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/6/12/Best-New-Porcelain-Lanterns Brooklyn-based designer Alyssa Ettinger has just introduced gorgeous lanterns made from translucent porcelain, which give off a firefly-like glow when a votive is added. The molds are hand-cast from antique mason jars; a thin wire handle makes them p... Entertaining Design Style Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:17:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/6/12/Best-New-Porcelain-Lanterns Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/5/15/Eat-Chocolate-and-Make-Money Dove has come up with a new way to sell their delicious confections:the Dove Chocolate Discoveries party. It's similar to a Tupperware party, except you can actually have too much Tupperware. And unlike an Avon or Mary Kay party, you don’t ... Entertaining Desserts Events Fri, 15 May 2009 10:25:17 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/5/15/Eat-Chocolate-and-Make-Money Christine Quinlan http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/8/A-Vegan-Passover If retweeting is re-posting a twitter feed, what's the word for re-blogging a Facebook status update? Retatting? This is a retat. Last night I got so excited I mentioned this on my Facebook page. A vegan friend is coming for Passover, and while c... Entertaining Holidays Recipes Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:36:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/8/A-Vegan-Passover Emily Kaiser http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/3/27/Michael-Psilakis-on-What-Its-Like-to-Cook-for-President-Obama At Food & Wine, we think our Best New Chef awards are some of the most prestigious in the culinary world. They are of course – and we have a whole new class to announce next week. (Stay tuned!). But there are some even greater honors and on... Entertaining Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:47:43 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/3/27/Michael-Psilakis-on-What-Its-Like-to-Cook-for-President-Obama Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/3/12/The-Spanish-Winemaker-of-the-Moment Alvaro Palacios is everywhere these days—even in the movies! Well, sort of. The undisputed star of modern Spanish winemaking appears in F&W’s April issue at a party in Manhattan’s new City Winery. Then, when I was watching the r... Entertaining Wine Events News Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:03:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/3/12/The-Spanish-Winemaker-of-the-Moment Emily McKenna http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Hostess-Gifts-on-the-Fly My friends must have been inspired by F&W’s list of 20 spectacular holiday parties in the December issue because this month has turned into one nonstop party – cocktail parties, cookie swap parties, Mad Men–themed parties, Monda... Entertaining Holidays Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Hostess-Gifts-on-the-Fly Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/8/An-Ode-To-Oysters This weekend was so dreadfully cold, all I wanted to do was hole up inside my apartment. But when I got a dinner-party invitation from Erika Lesser, executive director of Slow Food USA (the U.S. arm of the international movement founded to preserve t... Entertaining Cooking Recipes Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:58:24 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/8/An-Ode-To-Oysters Ratha Tep http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/2/Fight-Cancer-with-Cookies In our December issue, we came up with 20 party ideas to help with this crazy month of entertaining. One of my favorites: baking cookies with friends to sell and raise money for pediatric cancer research. The website we list, Cookies for Kids' Ca... Entertaining Desserts Baking Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:38:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/2/Fight-Cancer-with-Cookies Kristin Donnelly http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/1/A-Meat-and-Potatoes-Holiday-Party Glittering paper snowflakes! I loved the gorgeous styling by renowned event planner David Monn for Alex Williams's recent budget-holiday-party piece, "We're Going to Party Like It's 1929," in the New York Times. But the food&#8... Entertaining Cooking Holidays Ingredients Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:47:56 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/1/A-Meat-and-Potatoes-Holiday-Party Ratha Tep http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/11/18/The-Ultimate-Thanksgiving-Resource The countdown begins: Nine more days until that ultimate holiday, Thanksgiving. That means it's about eight days before I typically start preparing (I'm a big procrastinator). The day before, I'm usually frantically running around to buy ... Entertaining Cooking Menus Holidays Restaurants Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:36:21 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/11/18/The-Ultimate-Thanksgiving-Resource Ratha Tep