KNPR’s Food For Thought features our new favorite Mexican restaurant this week. Click here to hear us butcher the Spanish language whilst we praise Los Molcajetes for its authentic and incendiary cuisine. Because of ELV’s love of Univision and Telemundo (especially their soap operas….and especially the women on those soap operas), the staff at ELV tends to excuse his fractured accents and inartful attempts at their language.
And we hear Rachel Ray will judge the next Bocuse d’Or…
Emeril Gets 10-Book Deal From HarperCollins (Crain’s New York Business)
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., which owns the rights to the Emeril Lagasse franchise of books, television shows, and kitchen products, on Thursday announced a 10-book deal between the celebrity chef and publisher HarperCollins. Under the multi-year agreement, Mr. Lagasse is set to release his first book — with a focus on indoor and outdoor grilling — in May 2009. NYP: Said MSLO chairman Charles Koppelman, “I think it will generate a boatload of money.”
RM SEAFOOD
ELV remembers when the Dome of the Sea in the Dunes Hotel was the ne plus ultra of seafood restaurants in the High Mojave Desert. Actually, for about thirty years it was the only seafood restaurant around here. We remember with fondness the harpist who traveled around the restaurant on a moving track, playing melodically mediocre light classical tunes to distract the diners from the time-worn, tired and tepid recipes being served up (frozen sole almandine anyone?)
Now we have two seafood restaurants (RM Seafood and Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare) that compete with the best in the country. Le Bernadin in NYC is generally considered the best seafood restaurant in America, but nothing Eric Ripert served us in January (at a highly disappointing lunch there) competes with our last two meals at RM. Click here to hear my first review of RM Seafood, shortly after it opened in 2005. (FYI: The service flaws I complained of at the time were corrected long ago.)