some great food blogs

Today is a bank holiday in the UK which means nobody is really working, its gray and rainy, and next thing I will take my work on the memory stick and go home. I went to the office to catch up with some papers and drifted quickly off to look at some food blogs, and thats what I discovered today…

1) The Food Pornographer: with very nice images, inspiring recipes, looks realy good. (the post on Chutney Mary’s Indian Restaurant in Australia is specially inspiring and can be found here http://www.thefoodpornographer.com/?p=711

2) Then there is this one, Foodbloggin where I hope to become a contributor…

3) A Swiss food blog, blogging out of Switzerland, by a Japanese lady called Makiko, married to a Swiss man. The blog is up since 2003 and looks very yumy, I think there is a lot to discover,… you can find it here under Justhungry

4) Tonight we are cooking a classic Swiss dish: Kalbsgeschnetzeltes zuercher Art. (which means thin slices of veal, button mushrooms, white wine, cream sauce, served mostly with Roesti or Taglierini, more of this will follow later on tonight…)

Loads of recipes and insight into Swiss cuisine can be found on Ruedi’s website. There is still the Christmas image on the front page, I really hope nothing happened to him and wish that he is travelling somewhere to update his great food resources. Currently there is Morocco, Italy, and endless other resources on European countries from Algarve to Walloon. All of them are on other sites. It is absolutely fascinating and I would love to get to know Ruedi. (If you happen to be in London, drop me a note and be my guest)

5) and then there is World on a Plate which sounds very interesting too…

NYC 2007: Marco Burlimann, 30st Birthday, Pink Elephant and other stories…

It all began with one of the first posts…and here we go, last weekend we flew to NYC to visit my dear friend Marco Burlimann for his thirstiest thirtiest birthday, the program was well planned and executed, a tough one, awesome and freaking expensive.

 

We started on day 1 with bagels cream cheese smoked salmon, then some culture at MoMa where I saw my favorite painting for the four seasons, also displayed at Tate Modern in London. This was followed by immense hunger sorted out in Chinatown for lunch, via Pastis for a few Bourbons on lots of rocks and watching beautiful people, then to Gin Lane which Robbie recommended for guess what, – not a GT but a bottle of Champagne.

For dinner we went to Tao, a huge buzzing and loud Asia Japan meets West food temple resembling a night club with the large Buddha statue and loud music. A power scene. Claudio passed out.

Dinner was followed by Pink Elephant Club for clubbing where Marco “in the know” organized a hard to get table (in the video below you see the two girls which passed out on our sofa and where just sleeping for an hour or so until security removed them…) Dom Perignon, a bottle of Belvedere Wodka, another bottle of Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque and lots of dancing! A gorgeous waitress and the quickest “private” waiter at the table for ice refills, fresh fruit, lighters, cigarettes, red bulls, you name it. The bill was quite steep to. (Thanks Marco-man, next time in London its on me, poor guy spent 1700$…)

That day and night it was so damn cold with polar wind gales hitting the pavement that our noses nearly froze. The weather channel was talking of snow! – which arrived on Sunday night only…

Next day, Chicken Noodle soup and bagels in Carnegie Deli, then Greek Salad and Lamb Chops in Queens Astoria at Taverna Cyclades on Ditmars Boulvard and a visit to Marco’s flat, a local Greek Tavern, Schwarzwäldertorte in some neighbourhood cake shop and off we went for some shopping on 5th Avenue. Followed by drinks at Stone Rose bar at Time Warner building, Sushi in Wholefoods, then dinner at Gramercy Tavern followed by I don’t know anymore.

Sunday, the greatest 4 hour brunch I had in my life, (bagels before…) at Artisanal. Start with Bloody Marie, Cheese Platter with 4 different Swiss Cheese an amazing selection of Swiss Cheese in this place from Appenzeller, Stanser Fladen, Gruyere and Vacherin you name it, then Cheese Fondue and Snails in Garlic sauce to end before desserts, wine and lots of water to rehydrate the body from the nights before. Walk in Soho to Noho, back to the Columbus Circle, more drinks in Stone Rose followed by Sushi in Wholefoods (again) and run to the airport with a nearly heart attack. SNOW flakes in the sky!

Marco & Daniela, Peter, Claudio: Thanks to all of you for an AWESOME weekend and Marco especially for the whole organisation. See you shortly in St. Moritz for the last of 3 birthdays in a series!!!