http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off Food and Wine Editors' Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:51 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/20/Jamie-Oliver-and-Matchcom Catesby Holmes, one of our colleagues at sister mag Travel + Leisure, weighs in on this unlikely collaboration:“Naked Chef” Jamie Oliver has teamed up with Match.com in the UK, the original online yenta, to establish a forum for food love... Chefs News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/20/Jamie-Oliver-and-Matchcom Ratha Tep http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/20/Recipes-for-New-Moon-Fans  Like every teenage girl in America today, I'm super-excited about seeing the new movie New Moon, based on the second book in the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer. When Bella Swan (the heroine of the saga) is not being hunted by bloodthirsty... Cooking Events Recipes News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:53 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/20/Recipes-for-New-Moon-Fans Alessandra Bulow http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/19/Oceanas-Brownies-20 As a self-described brownie expert (I think my salted fudge ones are the best), I’m always looking at the competition. In Sam Sifton’s review of the new Oceana in the New York Times this week, he talked about the desserts but for some rea... News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:33:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/19/Oceanas-Brownies-20 Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/17/Londons-New-Princi-Bakery  I’m a compulsive researcher when I travel, so about two weeks before I flew to London I e-mailed my plugged-in chef, design and wine friends there to find out where I absolutely had to eat. Princi was at the top of everyone’s list. ... Baking Chefs Travel News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:33:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/17/Londons-New-Princi-Bakery Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/16/Londons-Most-Fashionable-Tea I’ll be blogging this week about discoveries from my recent eight-day trip to London. The city was buzzing with pop-up restaurant/design projects, ambitious new hotels and hip new British comfort food joints. One of my favorite finds was at the... Desserts Design Travel Style News Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:41:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/16/Londons-Most-Fashionable-Tea Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/Top-Chefs-Dale-Levitski-on-Sprout Top Chef Season 3 almost-winner Dale Levitski is opening his new restaurant, Sprout, tomorrow (November 13) in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Well, reopening it, since it’s a month-old place that already lost its original chef. &#82... News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:08:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/Top-Chefs-Dale-Levitski-on-Sprout Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/Ilse-Crawfords-New-Coaching-Inns  Superhip Brit designer Ilse Crawford is constantly innovating. Her latest obsession is reinventing the idea of the coaching inn, which offered travelers in the mid-17th century a place to eat and sleep. Last year I stayed at her first such prop... Design Travel Style Restaurants News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:59:55 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/Ilse-Crawfords-New-Coaching-Inns Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/From-America-to-Zanzibar-with-Island-Creek-Oysters I just met with Skip Bennett and Shore Gregory from Island Creek Oysters—a co-op of sorts that farms oysters in Massachusetts’ Duxbury Bay. With them was Erin Byers Murray, a former Boston magazine and Daily Candy editor and occasional F&... Farms News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:20:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/12/From-America-to-Zanzibar-with-Island-Creek-Oysters Kristin Donnelly http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/11/Mario-Batalis-Super-Bowl-Super-Party February 6, 2010, is a little ways away, but its worth noting on your calendar because it’s the day of Mario Batali’s Super Bowl Super Brunch in Miami Beach (and the day before the big game). Batali is co-hosting the brunch with Phillies ... News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:45:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/11/Mario-Batalis-Super-Bowl-Super-Party Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/10/Nestlé-Toll-House-CookiesThe-New-Health-Food The Economist is not usually the magazine I turn to for feel-good stories. But as an unrepentant chocolate-eater, it was heart-warming to see their recent profile on Nestlé, “The Unrepentant Chocolatier.” Specifically, Nestlé pl... News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:19:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/10/Nestlé-Toll-House-CookiesThe-New-Health-Food Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Calling-All-Foodies-InPerson-Castings-for-Top-Chef-Season-7 Want to be the next Hosea, Stephanie, Hung, Ilan or Harold? You could fill out an online application to be on Top Chef Season 7 or, better yet, show off your sparkling personality and glistening chef knives in person at one of the open casting calls,... Events Chefs News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:10:13 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Calling-All-Foodies-InPerson-Castings-for-Top-Chef-Season-7 Alessandra Bulow 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/2009/11/6/Crus-New-ChefWine-Expert Cru has been my favorite fancy New York City restaurant since it opened. And now I think it’s about to become my new favorite not-so-fancy place. As Florence Fabricant reported in the New York Times’ Diners Journal blog, Todd Macdonald is... News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/6/Crus-New-ChefWine-Expert Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/5/Breaking-News-Bar-Boulud-London Drum roll…Daniel Boulud is headed to London and not just for vacation. He's opening a branch of NYC's Bar Boulud in my favorite London hotel, the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park. The menu: bistro, featuring Boulud's terrific terrines a... News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:06:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/5/Breaking-News-Bar-Boulud-London Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/4/Early-Look-Maialino Boy is it exciting to walk past the construction workers and into Maialino, Danny Meyer’s about-to-open Roman trattoria in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Hotel. First you see the gorgeous burnt-yellow tiled floors (based on a design at the Pan... News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:21:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/4/Early-Look-Maialino Kate Krader