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Here’s what ELV learned from his taping of Battle __________! at the Food Network studios in New York two days ago. (Of course, we can’t tell you what the secret ingredient was, nor who won, but we can say it was a battle royale, a fight to the finish, with a whole heap of great dishes that had us judges dropping our forks and howling with appreciation.):
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Ma Peche (“Mother Peach”) was reviewed today in the New York Times. It is the lastest in uber-hip-media-darling-David Chang‘s East-Meets-West informal restaurant empire that has taken New York by storm since 2005.
ELV ate there in May, and thought you might appreciate a few of his tasty snaps.
Chang acolytes will swoon; the rest of you might wonder what all the fuss is about.
ELV has eaten four meals in three different Chang restaurants in the past four years, and still wonders what all the fuss is about.
Nevertheless, because Chang is considered such an “important” chef (although we question how far his influence has gone/will go), ELV’s staff thought you might be interested.