I recently spent four glorious days in midtown Manhattan.
For two of those, I was pretty much closeted in the Roger Smith Hotel attending back-to-back seminars at a cookbook conference. Read more…
NEW YORK: Call it my Higher Power, divine intervention, a charmed life …..
How else to explain this almost unbelievable story?
It was Day Three of my recent four-day visit here. (Two more days were spent travelling from and back to Toronto by VIA/Amtrak train – a quick word of advice, don’t try it and, if you do, take enough to eat for the 12-hour trip as the “food” from the cafe car, including coffee, is basically inedible.) While here, I also attended parts of the Food Network Wine & Food Festival: a new offshoot of the Miami event that’s been going for several years and is a similarly hectic, celeb-studded whirlwind of demos, parties and tastings. More on that later. Read more…
