Ice Cream (your) Favorites – Movenpick, Haagen Daaz, Green and Blacks…

Ice cream, what’s your favorite?

So I will admit it, though I do not think it will come to anyone’s surprise that I am a lover of Ice Cream. I will blame it on the job I had after being a paperboy, which was scooping Ice Cream at a local drug store. At that [...]

Raw, uncut vid from the West 14th kitchen.

 

Not too terribly exciting just a oh so normal dinner service on the Palm Jumeirah.

Ronda Locatelli – White Truffles on the Palm Jumeirah

Giorgio Locatelli in Dubai

Time seems to be ever fleeting, and time off well that never seems to come. I have been trying to get out and actually do something here in Dubai but all I do on my day off is sleep, do laundry, nap, find a place for dinner and then [...]

The 80 bean shot of espresso…

Freshly brewed espresso shot

Have you ever wondered how many coffee beans it takes to make one shot of espresso? Yea, well me neither until that one Saturday morning in the beginning of October.

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Accidental Coffee Art

Have you ever created something when you really were not planning on it? For those of us in the food industry, and for those who make a lot of coffee (cappuccino in this case) it seems that creating something, even when you are not trying to comes with some ease.

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Compound butter recipes (5)

Compound butter recipes

 

Got a few ingredients floating around the fridge and have no idea what to do with them…perhaps a compound butter is in your future.

Compound butters have been around for what seems like an eternity and hold a very special place it the annals of culinary history. One in particular, [...]

Dubai Steakhouse – West 14th

 

…and so it begins…

If you have been reading my posts as of late you will know that we are opening Dubai’s newest steakhouse @ the Oceana hotel and spa called West 14th, New York Prime. The restaurant opens in the end of June, 2010 and will feature some amazing beef straight outta [...]

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