Well before Marcel Vigneron was pushing his tasty foams and liquid nitrogen on Bravo’s Top Chef, there was Catalan born Ferran Adrià, the father of “molecular gastronomy.” At the heart of molecular gastronomy are chefs researching what their ingredients are doing at a molecular level and then using that information to build their cuisine more [...]
When four of my college girlfriends said they wanted to get away for a girls’ only weekend, I was thrilled to play Sunshine State hostess-with-the-mostess. After all, the tried and true blackmail material from our undergrad days–nearly a decade and a half ago– had grown stale. It was time to cultivate some new memories to [...]





