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NEWS ABOUT: gourmet dining

gourmet dining stories: 12 news summaries

 Trend Alert: 
 Gourmet Pizza 
 Heats Up 

Pies in new 'stratosphere of respect'

Jul 8, 09 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - In recent years, a new culture has developed around pizza: “It’s scrutinized and fetishized, with a Palin-esque power to polarize,” writes Frank Bruni in the New York Times. That means debates over oven types, varieties of flour, the virtues of buffalo mozzarella. The new “stratosphere of... More »

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food • gourmet dining • restaurant criticism • restaurant • pizza • buffalo mozzarella

 Haute Cuisine 
 Hides Out in Uruguay 

Celebrity chef launches ritzy restaurant in the middle of nowhere

Jun 20, 09 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nine hours in a plane from Miami, 125 miles through the Uruguay countryside, and 15 minutes down dirt roads will bring you to the ritzy restaurant Garzón, where a plate of ravioli will set you back $48. Garzón, in the village of the same name, is Argentinian celebrity... More »

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gourmet dining • chef • Uruguay • Michelin star • gourmet • jet set • Jay-ZTV • Francis Mallmann • Garzón

Sagging Economy Is Bitter Dish for Restaurateurs

With 12-15% slump forecast in fine dining for '09, some close down, others plug deals

Jan 23, 09 12:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Lean times are perhaps leanest in the restaurant business, and fine-dining establishments are bracing for a particularly tough year while improvising strategies to remain afloat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sales, $7 billion last year, are expected to plummet 12-15%; the industry could shed 12,000-18,000 restaurants, a 2-3%... More »

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gourmet dining • restaurant • fast food industry • dining • Jean Georges • financial crisis

GLOSSIES

 20 Best New Places to Dine 

Esquire's picks from all over the US

Oct 23, 08 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - After surveying restaurants across the US, Esquire gave the country props for its chops, proclaiming "the emergence of American cooking as the most diverse and most innovative in the world." It highlighted 20 favorite new restaurants of the year:
  1. L20 (Chicago): Overlook its Midwest locale; this place
... More »

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best restaurants • gourmet dining • list • restaurant • eating • dining

 Snail Prices Shell-Shock French  

Booming Eastern Europe having to pay harvesters better

Jul 6, 08 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French may soon be shelling out big bucks for the 14,000 tons of snails it consumes annually. Most actually originate in Eastern Europe, where growing economic development means rural families aren’t as willing to take up the demanding task of snail-gathering without better wages. And that, reports... More »

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food • Eastern Europe • France • gourmet dining • snail • escargot

Opinion

 The Perils of Opening
 an Indian Restaurant—in India 

Pan-Indian cuisine struggles to curry favor with regional tastes

Jun 12, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Modern Indian restaurants bent on messing with millennia-old recipes must "coax Indians into accepting the changes they make with beloved dishes," or continue to face the wrath of the "Authenticity Police," writes Shoba Narayan in Gourmet after an evening spent analyzing the paneer at Bangalore's upscale... More »

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food • India • gourmet dining • dining • spicy food • traditions • Indian cuisine • Suvir Saran

 Hard to Swallow:
 8 Taboo Delicacies 

Death-defying gourmet dishes can be tough to find

May 20, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The return of foie gras to Chicago's menus inspires Newsweek to list dishes still considered too dicey to serve:
  1. Maggot cheese: Injected with larvae that pose health risks
  2. Puffer fish: Incorrectly prepared fugu can be fatal
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banned foods • FDA • foie gras • gourmet dining • restaurant • absinthe • fugu

Save a Food From Extinction: Eat It for Dinner

'Food coalitions' aim to keep ingredients, recipes key to US heritage in circulation

May 1, 08 7:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vanishing culinary breeds are getting a new lease on life, thanks to the efforts of an ethnobotanist with an interest in America's foodie past, the New York Times reports. While Makah ozette potato sounds like a "Final Jeopardy" answer, the once-endangered vegetable is one of the many culinary artifacts... More »

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food • endangered species • agriculture • gourmet dining • crops • anthropology • Makah tribe • chickens • potato • American cusine

 Civet-Digested Beans
 Yield $99 Espresso 

Rarest cup of coffee blends Jamaican, Indonesian products

Apr 17, 08 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - You might look for a $99 espresso shot in a crowded Italian café before the second floor of a London department store. Yet it's the latter where you'll find the cup brewed from two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, one of which is sniffed out and, er, digested... More »

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food • gourmet dining • coffee roasting • gourmet coffee • espresso

Now Taking Reservations
for Sometime Next Year

The country's hardest-to-get dinner reservation is in ... Pennsylvania?

Mar 22, 08 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, French Laundry. The US' most in-demand dinner seat is in "flyspeck" Kennett Square, Pa., 35 miles from Philadelphia, Portfolio writes. Talula's Table takes reservations for its single, 12-seat table one year in advance. "My parents paid me $30 to stand out here," says one teen... More »

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food • best restaurants • gourmet dining • Pennsylvania • restaurant • French Laundry • menu • Talula's Table • Per Se • waiting list • John Turturro • Bryan Sikora

America's Best Regional Brews

Beer gets interesting with a surge of flavors from unexpected locals

Nov 1, 07 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beer isn't alcohol's second-class citizen any longer. To California chef and beer expert Sang Yoon, it's worthy of as much respect-—and connoisseurship—as any of its grape-based cousins. Food & Wine asked the "beer provocateur" for her five favorite regional brews:
  1. Alaskan Brewing Company Alaskan Amber (Juneau,
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wine • beer • gourmet dining • list

Best Restaurant in U.S. Closes

Jun 8, 07 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The restaurant that inspired some of America's leading chefs has closed. Located in the decidedly downscale Chicago suburb of Wheeling, Le Francais was once named the best restaurant in America by Bon Appetit magazine. More »

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Chicago • French cooking • gourmet dining • Le Francais • restaurant • Wheeling

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