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Welome Our Newest Wine Columnist & Overall Brilliance Contributer, Kimberly Koharki!
Whether you’re well-versed in wine or not, you’ve probably been exposed to the overly-complicated, flowery (ahem…ridiculous) language folks tend to use when attempting to describe what’s in their glass. Asking a salesperson for a white that’s ‘reminiscent of wet rocks in a river’, or ‘redolent of freshly-picked green apples and sage’ (these are actual wine descriptors pulled from the website of one of America’s most popular wines), isn’t going to do much to get you the bottle you’re looking for in real life.
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Bacon & Aleppo Popcorn
The popcorn I made for the 2011 Bacon & Bourbon event at Astor Center on Valentine’s Day has gotten a little buzz, so I’m sharing the recipe with you so that you can make this snack at home. I’m going to warn you though, that the best feedback I got at the event was from a group of people, all standing around, chowing down on their greasy bags of the stuff. All were saying ‘this is so good, yum, wow!’ Then, one insightful person said, “It is good, but someone is going to die tonight!”
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Video: Filet Mignon for Valentine’s Day
A few weeks back, I started brainstorming with the brilliant minds in Astor Center’s new media department ways to get our content out to more folks than just the ones who come in for classes with me. From that conversation was born The Gourmand & the Peasant web series. Here’s the pilot episode and I really hope you like it as much as we all do. Awesome thanks to everyone who made this possible, especially Kent, Cory and Ross. This is episode #1 of many more to follow and hopefully someday soon I’ll be thanking an amazing team at a fancy awards dinner. Go watch it!!
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The Big Video Shoot
I have a Halloween story for you. Read the whole whole post, as its intertwined funny and natural; weird and supernatural. To start, apparently I have some verbal tics. On film today I learned that I start pretty much every sentence with “so, ok” and I discovered this in my first real live video shoot. I’ve learned that I am a big ham and love being on camera and that paradoxically, I get kind of tongue tied, let my sentences trail off and am really good at the teaching part, not so much at the look-straight-into-the-camera part.
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On the Line with Eric Ripert
Standing in the newly renovated Astor Center, I met Chef Eric Ripert of Le Bernadin. I was nervous, this being my first official interview, but as soon as the Chef, smiling, relaxed in jeans and a green button-down shirt, walked…
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