CHEWING THE FAT

Originally published on The Daily Meal, this should make Cheese Lovers in New York stand up and cheer. By Monte Mathews Staff Writer If you can’t make it to Cheese Day in Paris, enjoy Cheese Week in the States We recently learned all about the…

Alison Roman of Bon Appetit I keep wishing there was another protein to cook with.  How many riffs can you find for boneless skinless chicken breasts?  But it seems unlikely that the Fearless Flyer from Trader Joe’s is suddenly going to extol the virtues of…

El Mitote’s Tacos I love tacos.  And apparently I am not alone. I posted the Instagram picture of the ones on the left and it broke the bank in “likes”.  These tacos are from El Mitote (208 Columbus Ave. NYC Tel: (212) 874-2929).  But even…

I am always staggered to hear how many chicken wings are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday.  Last year it was 1.3 billion! I really do understand the allure.   In the pantheon of things we love to eat, the Chicken Wing is high on ourlist. …

Alouette Brie, here pictured with a sliced apple Just a quick bonus post to tell you about a great find at TJs.  Yesterday at a lunch celebrating Cheese Week which is coming to New York later this month, I was seated next to Serge Bruno. …

What cook doesn’t love Shrimp?  They are such an obliging partner in the kitchen. They not only cook in all of three minutes but they turn pink and opaque to tell you they’re done.  They’re wildly popular—in fact, they’re by far the most popular of…

All Photos on this post courtesy of Westin Hotels By Monte Mathews The Daily Meal Staff Writer –> When the Marriott Corporation acquired Starwood Hotels and Resorts last fall, it became the steward of 30 hotel brands including Westin Hotels — all 210 of them…

Serve it straight from the pot on Night One… Or keep it refrigerated overnight and pop it in the oven for 20 minutes on Day 2. On more than one winter night at our house, pasta dishes have great appeal.  Hearty and comforting, they’re hard…

That is precisely what Bon Appetit called this submarine sandwich. Or more properly, it’s what Assistant Food Editor Amelia Rampe called her invention. That was likely preferable to her later reference when she called it a “Broccoli Sandwich”.  That was, unfortunately, what I called the…

How’s this for a request:  A reader who lives in North Dakota enjoyed our post about Thousand Island Dressing and its origins on the US/Canadian border (See https://chewingthefat.us.com/2013/10/the-saga-of-thousand-island-dressing.html).  Anonymously, said reader commented that a restaurant in Mandan, North Dakota had closed, forever locking the secret…

Learn to Cook Like Viking Ocean Cruises’ Chef While on Board Jan 6, 2017 | 4:54 pm By Monte Mathews Staff Writer Viking Ocean Cruises’ hands-on cooking classes beat the competition, hands down. A Hands-on Approach is key to Viking Ocean’s Cooking Classes. Photo by…

When I served Chicken Marsala one recent weeknight, Andrew asked if I was working on Italian restaurant classics.  As part of its 150th issue, Saveur magazine had published a collection of 150 Classic Recipes which ran the gamut from Buffalo wings to Middle Eastern Kibbeh,…

As we head into winter, what could be better than a Yankee Pot Roast for dinner one of these weekends.  Slow-cooked over a period of hours, the relatively inexpensive cut of meat used in the dish becomes meltingly tender. The sauce created lends itself to…

Who really wants to cook up a storm this week?  This is a week when we’d prefer to take a breather before heading into the weekend’s New Year’s celebration. Sign up for this particular recipe and you’ll be rewarded—not just with time saved—but with a…