Bocuse d’Or USA concluded last weekend in Orlando, Florida with pretty much every top toque in the American/French food world being present. After years of being creamed by foreign teams, the U.S. of A. decided to get serious this year with its competition — in order to field the strongest two-person team it could for the international cooking contest to be held in Lyon, France in January ’09.
Photos by Valeria Rispoli
Posted By: The Food Gal®
Ubuntu is America’s newest, hippest, most publicized vegetarian restaurant for a reason, and that reason is: they don’t live by the soy and/or die by the soy. Tofu is barely seen on the menu, and chefs Jeremy and Deanie Fox are so creative with their ingredients that this is a vegetarian restaurant even carnivores can appreciate. Plucked right in the middle of downtown Napa, it is among many businesses that have turned this once abandoned area into a foodie mecca rivaling those found miles to the north on Highway 29.
* CAPS in photo descriptions: from the UBUNTU biodynamic garden
It’s been a couple of years since ELV, The Official Number Two Son of ELV and
The Food Gal ate their way through Rome (Italy, not Georgia). But a friend called for restaurant recommendations there, giving us the excuse to post a list of our favorites from our last two visits. Buon gusto!
Checchino dal 1887 –Food from the “fifth quarter” of the animal; i.e. offal that’s awfully good. The pasta with baby lamb pajetes (small intestines) is a vegan’s nightmare and good beyond belief. Via Monte Testaccio, 30.