Archive for the ‘People in food’ Category
Small bites, big nights: 15 minutes with Govind
Govind Armstrong, the Los Angeles chef who one year ago brought his Table 8 to South Beach, is a busy man. He’s off to New York today having just arrived in Miami yesterday to make some menu changes at Table 8, then going to LA, then back here. Mind you he just got back from […]
What’s a chef to do without his taste?
What torture, not only to a chef, but to anyone. Interesting story (free for non-subscribers today only) in the Wall Street Journal about chef Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago, who was recently diagnosed with tongue cancer.
The disease was so advanced that three doctors told him the only way to cure it was to […]
There’s No Cake Like Home
Photos by Rachael Lee Coleman*
My friend Rachael and I arrived at Allie Herrera’s Miami Beach apartment last Monday knowing few things about her.
We knew that Allie, who is just starting out her cake business (the reason we were there to meet her), had been baking for more than 10 years and we knew she […]
