*After years of my pooh-poohing parsley-speckled plate rims and
mindless squiggles of mango and raspberry purees on dessert plates, it
seems that both fads have faded into oblivion. Thank you, but please
hold your applause until after the column is finished.
*Norman Van Aken has laid low of late, no? I sniff a comeback in the
air -- or maybe it's just the overripe mangoes in my kitchen.
*The anti-foie gras movement has seemingly lost momentum, and virtually
every new Miami area restaurant has
What is fast food to a redneck? Hitting a dear at 65 mph.I like White Castle but White Castle doesn't like me. ~Craig Hopson, chef at Le Cirque, N.Y.C.After watching sales falling off for three straight months at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Colonel calls up the Pope and asks for a favor.The Pope says, "What can I do?The Colonel says, "I need you to change the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken'. If you do it, I'll donate 10 Million Dollar
