Archives for the 'Chefs' tag
For a Limited Time Only: Colicchio Back in the Kitchen
Tom Colicchio announced yesterday morning his plans to open a new restaurant, Tom: Tuesday Dinner (although he is open to suggestions on the name):
The restaurant will probably serve about 80 diners a month, which is almost certain to make this one of the toughest tickets in town. Reservations will be taken by telephone six weeks in advance, and the price of the meal ($150 to $250 depending on the menu) will have to be prepaid with a credit card. Menus will only be announced about a week before each meal; they will be posted on a website, tomtuesdaydinner.com.
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He said that he had “no plan” to keep the restaurant going for more than a year, but hinted that he was taking a wait-and-see attitude.
So, not only do I have to plan my dinner six weeks in advance (which, let’s be serious, will probably end up being more because it’s Tom Colicchio), I have to pay for it in advance and I won’t have any idea what I paid for until a week before I eat it (at which point I can’t change my mind, because, well, I already paid for it). And why is he only going to be open for a year? This isn’t a concert tour – it’s a restaurant . . .
I have a suggestion for a name . . . how about Tom: Get Off Your High Horse and Open a Real Restaurant That Serves People Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday too. I’ll give him the weekend off. He’s busy.
Will I still try to get a reservation at his place? Heck yea . . . his food is delicious. But, I still think that this idea is a little ridiculous.
Breakfast à la carte
–Aspiring chef dies after consuming too-hot chilis on dare, the Times of London reports.
–If fat woman had been skinny woman, she wouldn’t be alive right now. “Being big saved my life.” More here from the Herald-Sun (Australia).
–Colts fan* breaks into home, hangs out in attic with pilfered beer and bologna for hours until he’s eventually caught, reports The Indy Channel.
*Presumably.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Chef, Spy
Julia Child was a great chef. A towering figure–both literally and figuratively. And she was also a U.S. spy during WWII. That according to new documents released this week.
But didn’t we already know this? USA Today noted upon the 2002 opening of the Spy Museum in DC that
[a] section on celebrity spies includes chef Julia Child, who processed classified documents in Ceylon for the CIA precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). “She had a taste for adventure,” quips Coakley, showing off a blown-up photo of Child reclining glamorously on an Army-style bunk bed.
Even if this latest news isn’t exactly, well, news, it’s as good a time as any to note that food and spies have always had an interesting relationship–from competitors spying on chefs to steal their recipes to unsuspecting archaeologists dosed with poisoned drinks to faceless modern-day Soviets poisoning former spies with toxic dishes.
As those latter two events reminded readers, the surest way to (stop) a man’s heart is though his stomach.
Post title explained here.
