One of my favorite books of 2011 was Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, a food memoir written by Gabrielle Hamilton (second from right). When publicity first surfaced that Gabrielle was coming to town for Sauce Magazine's Celebrity Chef Series (presented in partnership with Left Bank Books), my friend Mary…
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Meet Pi’s Executive Chef Steve Caravelli
I stopped in to see Pi's Executive Chef Steve Caravelli (above) on Friday morning to get the lowdown on the posters in the restaurant's windows plugging "Meatless Mondays" (see below). I assumed the push at Pi was solely to encourage healthier eating ("Meatless Mondays" has its own wikipedia entry: look here), but there is more…
Dressing up for a birthday bash
Apparently there was a birthday party upstairs at Brennan's (4659 Maryland Ave.) last night. The terra cotta entrance to the Gerhart Building was bathed in blue light for the occasion, accompanied by a Hollywood-style searchlight that illluminated the wintry sky. The effect added an air of festivity on an otherwise blustery night.