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12 days: camara of christmas… (2019)
– I remember the first time I met Gabriela Camara. My friends and I were standing on the sidewalk outside of her new restaurant Contramar in Mexico City. The sun was bright, the sky was clear, and...
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12 days of christmas: shieldses… (2019)
– In April of 2011, my friends and I arrived in the sleepy town of Chilhowie, Virginia. We had driven eight hours from Charleston to eat at John and Karen Shieldses’ restaurant Town House. The meal...
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12 days of christmas: calvert… (2019)
– Each night of the Twelve Days of Christmas at The Restaurant at Meadowood, hosting chef Christopher Kostow writes a person note about that night’s guest chef, which is printed with the menu. His...
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12 days of christmas: avillez… (2019)
– The Portuguese empire spanned the globe, from Brazil through southern Africa all the way to the warm waters of the South China Sea, where it held the last European colony in Asia until 1999, when it...
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12 days of christmas: park… (2019)
– If there was one guest chef who seemed to draw the most enthusiastic diners this year, it was the affable Junghyun Park. Born and raised in South Korea, Park arrived in New York in 2012 to work at...
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12 days of christmas: chan… (2019)
– I was wrong about Jeremy Chan and his cooking. When I first heard about his restaurant Ikoyi near Piccadilly in London, friends described the food as West African. Not having much experience with...
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12 days of christmas: nørregaard… (2019)
– I first ate at kadeau in Copenhagen in early 2013. What I loved about it then was how simple, delicious, and straightforward the food was compared to the New Nordic zeitgeist at the time. Chef...
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12 days of christmas: williams… (2019)
– I first heard of Brady Williams when he was hired to become the head chef at Canlis in spring of 2015. And since then, he has catapulted into the national spotlight as a rising star (twice a...
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12 days of christmas: charles… (2019)
– I hadn’t heard of Jeremy Charles, or his restaurant Raymonds in Newfoundland. But after doing a little reading, I uncovered an approach to cooking simpatico with my own perspective and preferences....
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12 days of christmas: lee… (2019)
– On the recommendation of a friend during a three-day layover in Singapore, I had the pleasure of eating at Candlenut. That was the summer of 2016, just before the Michelin Guide arrived in...
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12 days of christmas: cantu… (2019)
– It seems only a short while ago that Val Cantu was hosting a pop-up in San Francisco. Those early previews of Cantu’s modern, but studied approach to Mexican cooking generated considerable...
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12 days of christmas: kostow (2019)
– The last day of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tangle of excitement and exhaustion that is well-documented in previous years on this blog (a complete, hyperlinked list of every single dinner...
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travel: in dazzling relief… (2019)
– Cologne and wood smoke hit me as I peered through my camera for the first time in weeks. The lingering evidence of where I had last used it was a jarring telescope of just how far away two months...
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All first-year law school students in the United States are introduced to American jurisprudence through six, core courses: Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Property Law, Contract Law, Civil Procedure,...
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12 days of christmas: williams… (2019)
– I first heard of Brady Williams when he was hired to become the head chef at Canlis in spring of 2015. And since then, he has catapulted into the national spotlight as a rising star (twice a...
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12 days of christmas: charles… (2019)
– I hadn’t heard of Jeremy Charles, or his restaurant Raymonds in Newfoundland. But after doing a little reading, I uncovered an approach to cooking simpatico with my own perspective and preferences....
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12 days of christmas: lee… (2019)
– On the recommendation of a friend during a three-day layover in Singapore, I had the pleasure of eating at Candlenut. That was the summer of 2016, just before the Michelin Guide arrived in...
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12 days of christmas: cantu… (2019)
– It seems only a short while ago that Val Cantu was hosting a pop-up in San Francisco. Those early previews of Cantu’s modern, but studied approach to Mexican cooking generated considerable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
12 days of christmas: kostow (2019)
The last day of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tangle of excitement and exhaustion that is well-documented in previous years on this blog (a complete, hyperlinked list of every single dinner since...
View ArticleClik here to view.
travel: in dazzling relief… (2019)
– Cologne and wood smoke hit me as I peered through my camera for the first time in weeks. The lingering evidence of where I had last used it was a jarring telescope of just how far away two months...
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