Dining Dish (a.k.a, Dara Bunjon) is founder of Dara Does It, which caters to the food industry everything from PR to food styling to cooking instructions, and more. Enjoy her rants, raves, recipes and food adventures, and let her know yours!
We're into the hottest weeks of summer and all I can think about is not turning on my stove. When I was in Italy, one of my favorite dishes was a fennel and orange salad. If you have never had fennel, it has a licorice flavor, looks like celery but has a bulbous end. The very simple version is below but you can add shaved Parmesan cheese and baby arugula. Use an extra virgin olive oil when dressing the salad.
Stay cool and mangia, mangia, mangia (eat, eat eat)
Last night I took my husband out of his 2 mile radius of the house comfort zone, down to the edge of Patterson Park to Three Restaurant. For me it was my 2nd visit, though my first time with former Pazo Executive Chef, Peter Livolsi as the top toque. The... Read More Topics:
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While harvesting grapes at Basignani Vineyards, I couldn’t help thinking of the great Lucille Ball and her infamous Lucy Riccardo grape stomping episode. My outfit differed, my head covered with a baseball cap versus Lucy’s bandana,... Read More Topics:
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Should it be called the Holy Trinity? Why no butter? What is a celery vase? Those questions and more are answered in the following videos.Food historian and cooking instructor, Poppy Tooker and the matriarch of Creole cooking, Leah Chase discuss... Read More Topics:
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We’ve been asked to kick off a new feature here at Examiner.com with our “Best Of”. What a title to give someone, a place or thing and what an ego one must have to think what they deem the best of “something”... Read More Topics:
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What is the state of the restaurant industry? As the Restaurant Examiner, I feel it is my duty to report. “Every restaurant is the fulfillment of someone’s dream”, quipped Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant... Read More Topics:
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Jill Bloomfeld of http://www.teachkidstocook/ sent me this recipe, something different for the Jewish Holiday table. Jill said "this recipe turns gefilte fish haters into fans. When it comes out of the oven, it looks like cake! Use cookie cutters... Read More Topics:
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It has been 25 years since I was in New Orleans and I'm back in NoLa. I went on a recent market tour and found Jack Oser at the Gretna Farmers Market who gave me an oral recipe for Sauce Piquant. Being your dining mama, I picked up the trusty... Read More Topics:
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One of the benefits of my diverse food writing is receiving advanced copies of cookbooks and food related books. Publicist extraordinaire and friend, Carrie Weinberg-Bachman, formerly of Harper Collins/Wm Morrow, forwarded the soon-to-be released copy... Read More Topics:
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The Summer International Fancy Food Show has been an annual pilgrimage for me for the last 10 years: whether with friends looking for an excuse to go to New York and dine at great restaurants, as the marketing and public relations director of the... Read More Topics:
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