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Showing posts with label chefs jackets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chefs jackets. Show all posts
Monday, January 10, 2011
No, today's post is NOT going to be another recipe for pumpkin or butternut squash soup, though I admit to downing two bowls of the stuff whilst posting and even more whilst nursing this $#@! cold. I'm turning orange from all the butternut, sweet potatoes and carrots I've eaten the last few weeks.
In fact I'm taking you along to Hotel Drouot for a grand tour of just one of their exhibition rooms...
Full of everything chef related and restaurant related.
On the AirFrance flight over I happened to notice a tiny column on an exhibit of Henri Marquet sketches taking place at Drouot in Le Figaro and I thought why not?
Little did I know I would walk into floor upon floor of amazing exhibits of all manner of objects. Including a Mickey Mouse/Disney collection, antique furniture and jewels of course, Art Deco travel memorabilia, plus this glorious huge collection of cooking/chef stuff...
Hotel Drouot is Paris' main auction house since 1852 consisting of 16 exhibit hall. The exhibits change all the time and are completely free to enter.
If your hearts desire is to own a tiny chef cat waving a spoon you've come to the right place.
Though you will have to return for the auction and take your chances of winning this prize chat...
Artworks galore all chef related...
Are you mad for jellied eels in aspic?
You're in the right place...
A mini fore/stove outfitted with mini copper molds?
Absolutement parfait!
The joy is you can touch and examine all items to your hearts content. And photograph too.
It's expected - no one will say one word to you.
Never mind that from the outside of Hotel Drouot does not look so inviting or convivial. Once inside all is forgotten. It really is one of the best exhibit halls in Paris. Details of forthcoming auctions are published in the weekly Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, sold at newsstands and by subscription.9, rue Drouot 75009
Metro:Drouot-Richelieu
Bien sur, BEAR was moaning couldn't we please stay on for the Teddy Bear expo? Pas possible cheri..dommage.BONJOUR HOTEL DROUOT!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Last night I attended The James Beard Awards 2010 ceremony at Lincoln Center. James Beard was famous for many things, one of them his huge bowtie collection... 
Inside at Avery Fisher Hall the awards were being awarded...
Outside the theater a wild grazing event was going on provided by many previous award winners...
Guess where I was?This incredible "soup" (yet to be poured) was the taste of the evening in my humble opinion. Made by super chef Kevin Binkley of Binkley's, Cave Creek AZ. You stirred the tiny spoonful of scallops into a leek soup of bacon, sun-dried tomato and mini oyster cracker. Words cannot describe the ecstacy...
More ecstacy from chef Curtis Duffy of the Chicago Peninsula - a verrine of Alaskan King crab in a cucumber consomme with a 3-sugar tuile on top you had to crack through. And I had such firm intentions of eating rien de tout...Ha! 
From restaurant Daniel chef Jean Francois Bruel created this melange of...mon dieu - Black cod confit,fennel salad, artichokes bla bla
D'Artagnans' French kisses - Armanac-soaked prunes filled with foie gras. I hope you haven't passed out yet... 
Mini-pastramied duck sandwiches from LA Spago...miam-miam 
Best New York restaurant award winner, Eleven Madison Park sous chef James Kent, who by the way will be representing the US at the 2011 January Bocuse D'or in Lyon!! 
Served this stunningly clever tiny caviar tin of Scottish salmon tartare and smoked mousse with Yuzu and trout roe. 
An irresistable dessert of butterscotch budino(?) with sea salt, caramel sauce and a rosemary pine nut cookie from pastry chef Dahila Narvaez of Mozzo, LA. Major MIAM! A last treat but never least from JBF award winner Michelle Bernstein of chocolate-caramel crackle. I imagined I would save these for tomorrow. Quelle idiot! They were gone in a flash. 
What did we drink with all this FAB food? Champagne of course from many houses...
And the glam drink du jour was this orchid concoction
The glam clothes must be reported on bien sur!
Red is definitely the color to wear to this black tie event...
I wore my red Repettos of course...
RUFFLES! You could not go wrong wearing ruffles...
This stunner of a black and white outfit with tiny corset took moxie to wear at this major grazing event of the year worn by Josie Lemon of Chicago Spiaggia.
Tatoos!
And the glam drink du jour was this orchid concoction
The glam clothes must be reported on bien sur! 
Red is definitely the color to wear to this black tie event... 
I wore my red Repettos of course... 
RUFFLES! You could not go wrong wearing ruffles... 
This stunner of a black and white outfit with tiny corset took moxie to wear at this major grazing event of the year worn by Josie Lemon of Chicago Spiaggia. 
Tatoos! Why didn't I get one in time?
They were everywhere...
I was sleuthing around with onion marmelade expert, SaraBeth, who pointed out this French Girl to me. How did she know? Was it her je ne sais quoi?
I was sleuthing around with onion marmelade expert, SaraBeth, who pointed out this French Girl to me. How did she know? Was it her je ne sais quoi?
I once made a portrait business card for Drew including the everpresent cigar...
Cedric Vongerichten of Perry St NYC...
Who's who inductee Leah Chase of Dooky's Chase New Orleans...
Do you know Dorie Greenspan? She helped Pierre Herme with the English version of his dessert cookbook and wrote Paris Sweets, and Baking with Julia Child and, and and... Dorie is alway dressed in the most extraordinary outfits, like this Issey Miyake pleated thing and gorgeous French necklace. Dorie spends most of her time in Paris and is coming out with a new French cookbook, Around My French Table soon.
Are you wondering what I wore to this gala black tie event? A painted chefs jacket that's what.
BONJOUR JAMES BEARD AWARDS 2010!!!
Cedric Vongerichten of Perry St NYC...
Who's who inductee Leah Chase of Dooky's Chase New Orleans...
Do you know Dorie Greenspan? She helped Pierre Herme with the English version of his dessert cookbook and wrote Paris Sweets, and Baking with Julia Child and, and and... Dorie is alway dressed in the most extraordinary outfits, like this Issey Miyake pleated thing and gorgeous French necklace. Dorie spends most of her time in Paris and is coming out with a new French cookbook, Around My French Table soon. 
Are you wondering what I wore to this gala black tie event? A painted chefs jacket that's what. 
BONJOUR JAMES BEARD AWARDS 2010!!!Wednesday, July 18, 2007
The next chapter of my varied career path...Butcher, baker, candlestick maker...What's next? Chefs jacket painter!
As I mentioned before I had nothing to wear to the ball...I mean the chef portrait exhibit opening at the James Beard House.. So I painted a chef's jacket to wear covered with portraits of said chefs!
Here's a back view with my favorite back views of the chefs...
I mentioned also that I wore 4 different jackets to Paul Bocuse award luncheon... Not all at once silly! I rotated them in the ladies room. A tall, dark, thin man came over and said he'd like to order a painted jacket.asked for his business card. He said he had none. I asked could he write his name on a piece of paper.. And he wrote -
George Duboeuf!
I did a special "Flower Label" jacket for a friend of his...
I did a special "Flower Label" jacket for a friend of his...
At the same Bocuse event another chef invited me for lunch at his Lyon hotel restaurant.There he served me my first and last whole black Perigord truffle en croute. After I finished his dish and assured him it was wonderful.. (what do I know of truffles, chocolate or otherwise) He informed me, Now you will paint me a chef's jacket. You have just eaten your payment!
Pas de choise / I had no choice..
C'est la vie
Sometimes you just have to pay the piper for your dinner..
I got to know famed French chef, Roger Verge at that luncheon too. He asked me to paint him a special jacket for his upcoming vegetable cookbook tour. Payment would be a stay at his fabulous French Riviera inn, Le Moulin de Mougins. I never got around to tasting that "truffle" and now he's no longer there :(
Wendy Brandes at the Wall Street Journal did a little story on the jackets..."Michelangelo liked ceilings. Diego Rivera preferred murals. Carol Gillott goes for...chefs jackets."
I never had to worry again what to wear to the ball or any foodie events I was shooting. And I was a walking sandwich board for the jackets. Moms liked the jackets for their graduating culinary school kids. Chefs liked them too for special events. And the chefs were just entering the celebrity arena at that time...
I threw in this back view of the "pasta jacket" of a hilltown for all you returning sojourners from Italy, Merisi and Brit!
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