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David Burke
Image courtesy of: David Burke/Facebook Chef David Burke Perhaps the reason Chef David Burke is so uninhibited in the kitchen at the Park Avenue Cafe in NYC, able to be completely innovative and even wacky with his dishes and their presentation, is because, as he says, “I didn’t grow up eating that kind of food.” […]
Daniel Boulud
Image By DinexGroup Chef Daniel Boulud When Daniel Boulud began working as Executive Chef at Manhattan’s Le Cirque in 1986, the restaurant was much more famous for its glittering society than it was for its rather uninspired cuisine. Within the very first year of his tenure, Boulud turned that around, capturing that coveted New York […]
Rediscovering the Lost Art of Hot Chocolate With Maury Rubin
An Interview with Maury Rubin Maury Rubin, the chef/owner of Manhattan’s The City Bakery and author of Book of Tarts, first put hot chocolate on his menu in the winter of 1992. At the time, the only other upscale venue that offered the beverage served it frozen (this was pre-Starbuck’s). Now, City Bakery, with its […]
Hot Chocolate Epiphanies
by Melissa Clark While growing up, I never much liked chocolate. My birthday cakes were always made from strawberry-pink ice cream, and my candy preferences tended toward caramels, candy corns, and sugared nuts. Aside from the occasional bite sized bar of Hershey’s special dark, or a marshmallow-topped cup of Nestle’s Quik, chocolate was just not […]