New York Wins Every Single James Beard Award!

Last night at its annual awards banquet, the James Beard Foundation announced it was dispensing with all future categories and henceforth, would be condensing its awards to a single, three foot, rotund statuette of its founding father, and would collectively award it each and every year to every New York City restaurateur, chef, writer, broadcaster and editor in the New York food media — so that they could all, continually, bask in its brilliance and career-enhancing powers.

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Lidia Speaks!

 If you read our Eating New York piece last week, you know we at ELV consider Felidia one of, if not the best Italian restaurants in New York, and thus, by definition, America.

In the video, Lidia Bastianich expounds upon her culinary influences and her views of the art of being a chef….and an Italian.

BTW: her cooking show on PBS (that garnered a James Beard Award yesterday) is also must see TV for anyone interested in serious Italian cooking and food.