by Foodie Pat | May 6, 2023 | Food Stars
Claire Ptak California native, worked at Alice Water’s Chez Panisse, currently London owner of Violet Cakes and author of new cake cookbook, Love is Pink Cake. Especially known for baking the Prince claireHarry and Meghan wedding cake. For the coronation...
by Foodie Pat | May 19, 2022 | At Home, Cookbook Recommends, Food Stars
Daily exercises in the pool can get somewhat boring—all that counting! However, the exciting answer was a pair of waterproof headphones. Next was choosing audible books from Libby, available with my local library card. Passers-by at the condo pool around 9 AM, most...
by Foodie Pat | Apr 27, 2018 | At Home, Food Stars, TED Talkers
Lauren Singer realizes that this country accounts for only 5% of the world’s population and yet it creates half of all its garbage. She set out to do something. With a mindful approach, she believes we can lighten our collective load. She uses a bamboo coffee...
by Foodie Pat | Jan 2, 2018 | Delicious Destinations, Food Stars
Very elegant Vegetables…. There has always been an occasional vegetable or meat dish served at Le Bernardin, which has featured mostly seafood from the day Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze opened it in Paris in 1972. Now Eric Ripert, the restaurant’s executive chef...
by Foodie Pat | Jul 6, 2017 | Food Stars
His software “helps 300 non-profits and food distributors, including food service giant Sysco, avoid landfills by distributing their excess food products through donations and discount sales and as animal feed.” from Forbes, June 29, 2017 Ricky Ashenfelter...