Wish you were here | Graham Elliot in Chicago for New Year’s Eve
It’s a gas at Barcelona’s Comerc 24

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 [...]

St. Pete’s Beach Postcard Inn and Wildwood Barbeque | Friends, Surf and Great Barbeque, what more could a gal ask for?

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 [...]

Wish you were here | Joel Robuchon at the MGM in Las Vegas

This summer, Mister M and I were invited to a party to watch the Blue Angels’ air show on Pensacola Beach. We had a blast at the beach watching the air show and later that evening had a delicious meal at The Global Grill in downtown Pensacola. We were part of a boisterous party of [...]