March 2011 - Posts

• Diner's Journal: Awaiting Spring's Arrival With an Onion Tart

  With farmers' markets awaiting spring crops, an onion tart is punched up with celery root. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2011, 10:14 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Cooking and Cookbooks, Onions, Cooking, celeriac, tart, onion tart

• The Tipsy Diaries: Sweet on Tiki, Flower of Cocktails

  Adam Kolesar is known as Tiki Adam — tiki drinks are his particular passion — and considered to be one of the great characters of the New York bar scene. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2011, 10:00 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Alcoholic Beverages, Cocktails

• T Magazine: Ristretto | Modernist Coffee

  Nathan Myhrvold's compendium of cutting-edge cooking includes a detailed primer on coffee. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2011, 09:00 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Ristretto, Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft

• Oddbins goes into administration

  Oddbins today went into administration with debts of over £20m. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2011, 08:39 AM by Wine News | Decanter

• Eat: Broiled, Sautéed, Roasted, Poached

  Serving up the humble white fillet in a dozen different ways, from the everyday to the exotic. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2011, 07:00 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Recipes, Cooking and Cookbooks, Fish and Other Marine Life

• Diner's Journal: Growlers for Grapes

  A South Carolina store is selling jugs of wine from a tap, and at least one company would like to see stores in New York do it. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 04:12 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Wines, Wine, Drinking, growlers, Gotham Project, Silvertap, Charles Bieler, Community Tap, Ed Buffington, Dan Donahoe

• F.D.A. Panel to Consider Warnings for Artificial Food Colorings

  Studies suggest a link between food dyes and hyperactivity in children. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 12:50 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Medicine and Health, Children and Youth, Food and Drug Administration, Dyes and Dyestuffs, Hyperactivity

• T Magazine: Edible Selby | Stevie Parle

  An ambitious young chef whips up world-class cuisine in an unlikely setting in West London. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 12:15 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Food, Travel, Stevie Parle, Todd Selby, Edible Selby, Dock Kitchen

• Diner's Journal: Achatz's Restaurant May Open in a Week

  Grant Achatz says that his new restaurant, Next, may open on April 6. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 10:20 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Chicago (Ill), Cocktails, Chefs, Next, Aviary, grant achatz, Achatz, Grant, Dave Beran

• Chateau Guiraud opens wine storage in China

  Chateau Guiraud in Sauternes is to open two storage cellars for its wines in Asia, one in Hong Kong and one in Shenzen, China. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 09:05 AM by Wine News | Decanter

• Sylvie Cazes: early Bordeaux scoring is 'marginal' problem

  Sylvie Cazes, president of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (UGC) has hit back at criticisms the UGC is not tough enough with journalists who publish scores early. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 08:02 AM by Wine News | Decanter

• Italy celebrates Unification with 20-grape blends

  Two wines blended from 40 different grape varieties from all over Italy have been made to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of the republic. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2011, 06:14 AM by Wine News | Decanter

• Opinionator: Why We're Fasting

  Looking at Congressional budget proposals that would make huge cuts in programs for the poor makes you realize there are bigger things in life than dinner. Read More... Posted Mar 29 2011, 11:47 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: United States, United States Economy, Mark Bittman, Food Stamps, congressional budget office, Welfare (US)

• Food Stuff: Calamansi Juice Hard to Find? Not So at Shi Eurasia

  A shop on the Lower East Side stocks Asian and European products that are rare in New York. Read More... Posted Mar 29 2011, 07:45 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Shopping and Retail

• Feed Me: An Easter Treat From the ‘Cake Boss’

  Buddy Valastro, the owner of Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, N.J., and the star of TLC’s “Cake Boss,” makes pizza rustica, a traditional Italian-American dish for the holiday. Read More... Posted Mar 29 2011, 07:11 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Cooking and Cookbooks, Bakeries and Baked Products, Easter and Holy Week, Pizza Pies, Italian-Americans, Valastro, Buddy, Cake Boss (TV Program)