Social media and the smartphone may be creating havoc not only in how we experience a restaurant but also in how chefs approach food and how they innovate. People are busy looking at their phones wherever I look. I am interested not only in what they are doing but also in how they are using their phones. Some have their earphones on and are listening to music or their latest … [Read more...]
Archives for 2017
Largest food truck festival in the world to take place in Brussels next month
Brussels will welcome the largest food truck festival in the world on 5, 6 and 7 May. 103 food trucks from around Europe are expected to welcome around 150,000 people in the park of Tour et Taxis. At the Brussels Food Truck Festival, visitors will be able to choose from the cuisines of Morocco, Armenia, Lebanon, Belgium, Britanny, Ireland, Alsace, Italy, Creole, African, … [Read more...]
Cooking on the film set of The Dinner was more challenging than cooking in a restaurant – Jae Song
It is not often that a chef has to create a menu for an important dinner where the focus is not the taste but rather the visual aspect and the consistency. While in a restaurant you have to work with one dish at a time, for a movie there need to be a series of dishes that are exactly the same and which are served in rapid succession as a scene is shot repeatedly. “It is like … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #112
A job for life: the ‘new economy’ and the rise of the artisan career: Whatever you think of the gig economy, it does throw up some amusingly bizarre jobs. Set Sar, of Providence, Rhode Island, told this paper in 2015 that he earns a crust by looking at videos and web pages on his computer while having his eyeball movements tracked via webcam. The information this provides is … [Read more...]
Interview with Jeremiah Tower: ‘You have to look to the past to figure out the future’
Few people have had an impact on the United States culinary scene like Jeremiah Tower. Yet, for nearly 20 years, he disappeared from the scene and few people seemed to know what had happened to him before he took up the challenge to become chef of New York legendary restaurant Tavern on the Green. Having accepted to take part in a documentary about his journey, Jeremiah was … [Read more...]
