Heirloom Meals: Savoring Yesterday's Traditions Today

Thursday May 20, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Fabian Dominguez takes us on a Journey to Argentina

On May 19th Heirloom Meals radio interviewed Fabian Dominguez, a native Argentinian chef and food entrepreneur. His current passion and humble food philosophy stems from his exposure to the picturesque and family-centered culinary culture of Buenos Aires as well as the local flavors and spiritual lifestyles in the Berkshires. At the age of 12 he exclaimed to his mother that he was going to be a chef when he grew up, and it seems that a combination of extraordinary talent and fate has allowed him to realize not only a childhood dream but his current one of sharing his love and gratitude with those around him. Enjoy listening!

Sunday May 02, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Dream Away Lodge Chef, Amy Loveless Shares her Culinary Journey

Amy Loveless, a true Stockbridge, MA native attributes her love of cooking to her wholesome upbringing. Her Mom was always cooking and baking and Amy knew at an early age that baking and cooking were her passions! Her Dad always maintained a large kitchen garden so Amy is at home with preserving and accustomed to using local in-season ingredients. Amy owned and ran a bakery, a catering company and now gets to create meals at the Dream Away Lodge where she feels it offers her the perfect next step - cooking for many, in a very community-oriented restaurant. Enjoy listening!

Wednesday April 21, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Giulia Melucci’s Love Affairs with Food and Men - All Revealed in her Memoir

Giulia Melucci's book dedication: For my mother, who taught me how to cook and how to love. That sums up Giulia - a passionate Italian-American who loves food, cooking and family. Giulia shares her quest for love through the meals she cooks for her boyfriends in her memoir, "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti." It is a witty, self-effacing, often funny account of Giulia's love life and the food she cooks - for love, to assuage a broken heart, and for pure joy.

Giulia represents all that Heirloom Meals aims to capture - a love of one's past seen through food memories, and taking those meal memories and tweaking them for our current lives - "savoring yesterday's traditions today." Enjoy listening to the interview. Thank you Giulia!!

Wednesday April 14, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
How Christopher Blair’s Love of Food Chemistry Translates into a Lifetime Joy

Christopher Blair grew up in Connecticut in the 1950's in a typical home where Mom always served home-cooked meals. But it was Chris's time in college that helped him evolve into an intuitive cook, a bread baker and lover of seasonal ingredients. One of Chris's favorite books: The Cook Book Decoder or Culinary Alchemy Explained by Arthur Grosser, helps him think about how different foods interact with seasonings from chemistry point of view.

Chris does a brilliant job fusing the art and science of cooking. Who would ever think of pairing paté with ground coffee beans or ground chocolate? Enjoy the interview.

 

Thursday April 08, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Red Lion Inn Chef, Brian Alberg Shares His History

Make no mistake about it Brian Alberg's innovative comfort food derives its roots from his upbringing, which was closely connected to the land and farmers in Copake, NY. He broadened that connection through his apprenticeships in restaurants since the age of 14 and his degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.

Brian was a true advocate of slow food and the locavore movement way before they became "movements!" Here is the interview.

Wednesday March 31, 2010

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Michael Pancheri’s Journey to Farm to Table Cooking

Michael Pancheri's journey to chef at Allium Restaurant in Great Barrington, MA has its roots in his early interest in food and cooking as a child. Listen while he tells Heirloom Meals Radio about his most memorable food from childhood, Cornish Pasties. His cooking evolved with each stint he had at various restaurants including Hamersley's Bistro in Boston to wd-50 in New York City.

Michael brings all his experiences to the food he now serves at Allium with a bias toward local, in-season ingredients and a farm-to-table menu.

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