Tag: Alan Richman

Avec Alan Premiers!

Alan “The Hitman” Richman has done it again.

Trumped all of the nation’s food critics.

Beaten the French at their own game.

And made the world safe for lovers of obscenely impersonal, big box stores everywhere.

Yes, he cooked uber-French chef Eric Ripert (of New York’s Le Bernadin – widely considered the best seafood restaurant in America) a meal entirely from Costco (complete with frozen quiches), and actually got Ripert to admit the quality of the products (and Richman’s cooking) was good.

Ripert found the very idea of Costco offensive (as do we), but begrudgingly had nothing but good things to say about the products that went into his meal.

Next on Avec Alan: Bobby Flay is cooked a meal out of chalupas and Slim Jims — declares everything “too spicy.”

VEGAS UNCORK’D (Part Deux) – Thoughts, Reflections, and (even more) Tasty Snaps

PRIVATE TASTING WITH ALAIN DUCASSE @ miX

If you want to turn any chef, restaurateur, or foodie in the world green with envy, try telling them you just spent the afternoon tasting new dishes at miX atop Thehotel at THE Mandalay Bay with Alain Ducasse — the only chef in the world with twelve Michelin stars.

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An Italian Lesson At LUPO

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. – George Miller

The above cliche is based upon the bad, cheap, fat-laden Italian food that continues to enthrall the American middle class (see Olive Garden, Maggiano’s, Macaroni Grill et al). It’s too bad though, because true Italian food, like Japanese, is about ingredients (or good groceries, as Alan Richman says) more than technique. For pirouettes on the plate, one usually looks to China or France, but for pristine ingredients that shine with only a minor flourish or two, you can’t beat a purist Italian meal prepared by a great chef.

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