Category Archives: James Beard

Beer Dinners Hit New Heights [Trends]

Here’s a report I put together for Food & Wine’s Mouthing Off site—CDB American craft beer’s surge into the spotlight has taken many forms, but until relatively recently, beer dinners in ultra fine dining settings were generally considered oddities, one-offs, … Continue reading

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Going Full Beard [Blowouts]

Here’s my coverage from EATER Portland on the James Beard Foundation Awards, the swanky affair held each year at Lincoln Center requiring journalists to wear uncharacteristically formal clothing and chefs to get very, very drunk. First, an interview with Seattle … Continue reading

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Oregon at the Beards

Oregon chef has his own Big Night at New York gala from the Portland Oregonian FOODday section today, May 15, 2007   Park Kitchen‘s Scott Dolich didn’t win a Beard award, but that didn’t stop his revelry -Tuesday, May 15, 2007CHRISTIAN DeBENEDETTINEW YORK … Continue reading

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Filed under A Voce, Bobby Flay, James Beard, Momofuku, Oregon, overheard, Park Kitchen, Portland, Scott Dolich, Tapas, Thomas Keller, Todd English

Oregon Chefs Reprazent!

Robert Greene’s book ‘The 48 Laws of Power’—an update of Sun-Tzu and Machiavelli that has taken hold in the hip-hop community—talks about the tactical dangers of ‘outshining the master’, as I learned from Nick Paumgarten’s latest article in The New … Continue reading

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