|
|
|
Excerpt from:Food celebs will visit Del. for talkBy PATRICIA TALORICO / The News Journal01/12/2005Mark your calendars">
Mark your calendars,
foodies - some top toques are heading this way. Celebrity chefs Jacques
Pepin and Mario Batali will be the featured panelists for "Our Love Affair With
Food," a May 6 event at the Hotel du Pont's DuPont Theatre in Wilmington.
The program is the part
of Forum USA Delaware, which puts together a panel of distinguished speakers for
unscripted discussion and debate. The News Journal is a sponsor of the series.
Pepin, the author of 22
cookbooks, is one of the most beloved culinary teachers in the United States.
His latest book, "Fast Food My Way" (Houghton Mifflin, $30), is the companion to
a new PBS series of the same name. The 69-year-old Connecticut resident, who has
been cooking since he was 13, was classically trained in France. He once served
as a personal chef to Charles de Gaulle and was a longtime friend of the late
Julia Child, with whom he shared several TV series. Pepin is the dean of special
programs at the The French Culinary Institute in New York. The busy Batali, a
longtime fixture on the Food Network with his series "Molto Mario," has opened a
string of hot New York eateries, not all Italian. The flagship is Babbo
Ristorante e Enoteca in Greenwich Village; Casa Mono is a Spanish eatery near
Gramercy Park; and his latest is Bistro du Vent on West 42nd Street. Il Posto,
another Batali venture, is scheduled to open this spring. Batali, 44, known for
sporting his trademark orange clogs and shorts, also has penned three cookbooks.
Hottie actor Jake Gyllenhaal was recently spotted in a Manhattan grocery with an
open copy of Batali's "The Babbo Cookbook" (Clarkson Potter, 2002) as he shopped
for produce for a recipe. Tickets for the 8 p.m.
program at the theatre in the DuPont Building on 11th Street are $45 to $65.
Call 656-4401 or visit
www.duponttheatre.com.
A taste of Gilmore's
Having a hard time
booking at a table at Gilmore's, the tiny-but-tasteful BYOB in West Chester,
Pa.? Consider chef/ owner Peter Gilmore's Jan. 31 demonstration at Celebrity
Kitchens, Independence Mall Shopping Center, 1601 Concord Pike. The Brandywine Hundred
cooking school also is hosting several notable Philadelphia chefs in the
upcoming months. Jean-Marie Lacroix of Lacroix at The Rittenhouse will be
cooking in the kitchen on Feb. 21. His Philadelphia eatery was named "Best New
Restaurant in the Country" by Esquire Magazine in 2003. Executive Chef Chris
Scarduzio of Brasserie Perrier is teaching a class on Feb. 24, and Christopher
Lee, chef de cuisine of the Striped Bass, will be slicing and sautéing on Feb.
28. |