"jacques pepin" news and stories

• Looking for ways to get dinner on the table fast? Check out this round-up of cookbooks that promise to do just that.
• Baba's Mediterranean Kitchen is the new hot spot for take-out in the Baltimore area.
• Rob Kasper is giddy with excitement because this presidential election means that beer has returned to the White House.
  
• The Recipe Finder has dug up the missing recipe for a Bee Sting Cake.
• While late-season tomatoes aren't as easy and gorgeous as the mid-summer ones, with a little careful prep, they can be just as succulent.
• Fall calls for hearty meals and there isn't anything more substantial than this Braised Pork Chop with Fennel and White Beans.
• Elizabeth Large rounds up the top ten best restaurant dishes that include duck.
• Halloween candy making you crazy? Here are five ways to use those leftovers.
• When the economy gets tight, people start choosing cheaper, less healthy foods. It doesn't have to be that way though.

• A foodie tour of the Mediterranean with Jacques Pepin.
• Eight travelers pick their favorite foods from around the world (and their favorite bags to put that food in).
• Airstream Cuisine.
• What are chefs in Spain interested in now?
• Who's the next Jamie Oliver?
• A quick guide to Pinot Noir.
• How to make a better cupcake.
• New stuff for your kitchen, here, here, and here.
• This month's recipes include: Chilled Russian Borscht, Tangy Twice-Cooked Eggplants with Red Peppers, Watermelon and Goat Cheese Salad, Spiced Pinto Beans with Chorizo, Cubano Sandwiches, Korean Grilled Beef, Baja Fried Shrimp Tacos, Poached Eggs with Baked Feta and Olives, Chocolate Buttermilk Cake, and Lemonade Slushies with Mint and Lemon Verbena.

• It's Thanksgiving, and the magazine has a ton of great ideas.
• America's great wines to serve this holiday.
• Some easy recipes for foods to give as gifts this season.
• Jacques Pepin's favorite holiday desserts.
• A visit to the cooking school at Mexico's Rancho La Puerta spa.
• Here's the next great food destination in Las Vegas.
• The secrets of a cocktail master.
• This month's recipes include: Chicken Liver Pate' with Pistachios, Ginger Beef and Pork Toasts, Caramelized Onion and Toasted Bread Soup, Creamy Potatoes with Bacon, Applesauce Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake, Best Ever Nut Brittle, and Santa's Little Helper.

Speaking of apples (I know, you're getting tired of me writing about apples. This is the last one for a while. I promise.) did you guys see the gorgeous apple tart that Deb at Smitten Kitchen just posted? I don't think I've ever, in all my life, made a dessert that looked quite so gorgeous.

The recipe is one that originally comes from Chez Panisse, according to Alice Waters it was created by Jacques Pépin so you know even before you bake it that it's going to be wonderful. And Deb's pictures certain prove that out. This would make a great Thanksgiving dessert if you don't want to bake a traditional pie.

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We're a blog, and you're a blog reader, so neither of us has to say these names out loud: Daniel Boulud, Ruth Reichl, and the one that I call "that French guy Zhon-Zhorzh," Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

But when there comes the time in regular conversation when you just might have to pronounce these famous food people's names out loud, the Gentleman Gourmand has a handy list of how to pronounce them. Some of them, we hear enough on TV, like Mario Batali, but others, not so much.

• Jacques Pepin is not "Jack Peppin?!??!" No, my friends, it is "Zhog pep-ANNE."
• Daniel Boulud is not like my brother, as sung by Elton John. It is "dan-YELL," emphasis on the second syllable. His last name is "boo-LOO," silent on the "d."
• Grant Achatz of Chicago's Alinea, he of the trapeze bacon, is not "AH-shots," rather, "ACK-etz." In case you're wondering, bacon is "bacon."

And since Gentleman Gourmand's post is a couple of year's young, it doesn't include some of the newer faces on the scene.

• Be not thrown off by the "AE." Her name is Rachael, and amazingly, it sounds just like "Rachel."
• Giada de Laurentiis is "Zhee-AH-dah de law-REN-teess."
• Sandra Lee is simple. "Seh-my home-mayd."

[via: Megnut]