Art Culinaire back issues from September 2006:
Mise en place.
Sep 22, 2006 ... <Pre> "He aprobado a un loco o a un genio. / I have either found a lunatic or a genius." -Spanish architect Elies Rogent (1821-1897), upon signing Antoni Gaudi's official architect's title in 1878. </Pre> Is there any finer line between opposite extremes, especially in the kitchen, ...
Restaurant: public relations.(INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT)(Karine Bakhoum of KB Network News)(Interview)
Sep 22, 2006 ... karine bakhoum is the president of KB Network News, a boutique public relations, consulting and media networking company. Bakhoum was born in Switzerland and educated in Paris, and left behind a career in fashion to pursue her interest in food and public relations. She learned the ropes at ...
Mussels.(BACK TO BASICS)(Recipe)
Sep 22, 2006 ... ON MUSSELS <Pre> "Mussels are beautiful. Mussels are delicious. Mussels are easy as hell to cook." --Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook (2004) "Mussels are sometimes called 'the oysters of the poor,' which goes to show that poverty can be not only ...
Second guessing your garlic: you've pursued bright green or purple heirloom tomatoes, obscure microgreens and pedigreed livestock for your menu--but do you care where your garlic comes from? Can you afford to look beyond that big plastic jug of peeled cloves, and if so, how much of a difference can it make to use heirloom or exotic varieties of garlic in the finished dish?(Recipe)
Sep 22, 2006 ... To garlic farmer Chester Aaron, there's a night-and-day difference between exotic varieties and what is commonly called 'commodity' garlic. Aaron, who is also a writer and professor of English at St. Mary's College of California, grows approximately 90 varieties of garlic on his farm in ...
Five days in Barcelona (and points north).(Recipe)(Interview)(Travel narrative)
Sep 22, 2006 ... DILLUNS LUNES (MONDAY) I'd been told about the light in Barcelona, and indeed It's the first thing I notice as we slouch in the back of a taxi, feeling beat up and starved after a trans-Atlantic flight with a quick stop in Frankfurt. Had we dreamed the man in a white ...
A study in color.(food colorings)(Will Goldfarb, a successful pastry chef)(recipes to make carbonated drinks)(Recipe)
Sep 22, 2006 ... The International Food Information Council, a media relations organization that represents the interests of the processed foods industry, often with the express cooperation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), defines a color additive as 'any dye, pigment or substance which when ...
The eminent drinkable wine .beaujolais nouveau--one need to only glate into the gaping maw of worldwide celebrity culture to understand what has happened to the "it-factor" of beaujolais nouvean.(Recipe)
Sep 22, 2006; ... One need only glance into the gaping maw of worldwide celebrity culture to understand what has happened to the "it-factor" of Beaujolais Nouveau in the past ten years. The eminently drinkable wine, like a fresh-faced starlet, was once the autumn toast of every town from Paris and New York ...