It Was Safer in the Street Than on the Sidewalk
Richard Leach, the pastry chef at Park Avenue Winter, wanted to shoot his dish for the upcoming book “Street Eats” outside. Right in front of the restaurant on the side walk was a manhole cover. I liked the one in the street better but Richard thought it would be too dangerous! So I lay down on the side walk and not 10 seconds later a woman in an electric powered wheel chair came around the corner passing awfully close to me. Seeing as it wasn’t any safer on the side walk and the manhole cover in the street was a whole lot nicer…… the photo tells the rest of this story.
Ivy Stark in Mexico
Overseeing the burgeoning Dos Caminos empire, Corporate Executive Chef and devotee of regional Mexican cuisines Ivy Stark doesn’t seem like she would ever have the time to travel, to delve into the peoples and study food cultures of the world. Then again, this Colorado native doesn’t seem like she would be a dyed-in-pinstripe wool NY Yankee fan who never misses Spring Training camp. In a recent interview in her cramped, shared office, cluttered with cookbooks, Jorge Posada pictures and a trail map of the Arapahoe Basin, this charming and ever-curious Chef described pictures and memories from her latest trip to Mexico and shared her deep culinary knowledge for this first installment of a new series of unique travelogues for thechefsconnection.com. (more…)
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