Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'Pim'
Pim's Tweetcipe
For those who thought my Kimchi Fried Rice post used too many words, check out Pim's Tweetcipe version: "hot wok, oil sizzles, garlic+grnd pork to brown, toss kimchi, push aside, crack eggs, whip&in goes rice, TOSS+s&p+pinch sugr, grn onion DONE." I hate to admit it, but hers actually sounds better....
Win Two Tickets to IRON CHEF AMERICA
I was late this year to Menu For Hope, Pim's awesome fundraiser that, last year, raised more than $100,000 for the U.N. World Food Program, because I was trying to muster up the coolest prize I could: two tickets to Iron Chef America. It's quite a prize because it's so exclusive. Unlike other TV shows that tape in New York, you can't get tickets by sending in a postcard or writing an e-mail to Food Network; Iron Chef America is invite-only. To this day, I still get e-mails from people who've read my post about going to a taping two years ago who want to know how they can get tickets. Well there's a simple answer: you can't! That is, until now. To win these two tickets, it's really simple. Just go to the donation page by clicking here and bid on this prize by entering the prize code: UE27. For each $10 donation, you buy one raffle ticket; you can buy as many tickets as you'd like--the more you buy, the better your odds of winning. All the specifics are on the donation page, so read them carefully before entering. Also, be advised: Iron Chef America tapes in New York in June, so you'll have to find a way to get here yourself and you will have no control over the date for which the tickets will be issued. We're very lucky to get these tickets at all, so let's not look a gift horse in the mouth! Thanks so much to everyone at Food Network who made this possible--especially Bruce, Lauren and Rachael--and thanks to Pim, again, for organizing this great event. Make sure to check out the master list of other prizes on Pim's site and bid as much as you can; it's for a great cause. As for the Iron Chef tickets, in the words of my uncle: let the battle begin!...
The Best Butter in America (Beurre Pim)
"Walk me home," said Pim after dinner. "I have something for you in the freezer." We were at Franny's, my beloved Park Slope pizzeria, sharing pasta and pizza and a decadent panna cotta for dessert. What could Pim have for me in her freezer? Not even her freezer, but the freezer of the person with whom she was staying? We walked along Flatbush over to Fort Green and up the stairs of this mysterious apartment. And once inside, Pim finally opened the freezer door and removed a pyramid-shaped packet wrapped in parchment. "Open it," she said. Inside was a shimmering, glittering mass of butter. "What is this?" I asked eagerly. "This," declared Pim, "is, I think, the best butter in America."...
nibbles 5.23.08
* Iron Chef Michael Symon celebrates the reversal of Chicago's ban on foie gras. "It always boggles my mind how quickly people bash foie gras but in the meantime have no problem with mass produced chicken, pork etc....let me assure that these ducks live a much better life than the "yellow chikens" that seem to be at every grocery store." * Pim visits Pink's in L.A.. "Waiting half an hour for a hot dog was certainly a new experience for me." (Long ago and far away when I lived in L.A. for a summer I visited Pink's with a friend and enjoyed it. Though the celebrated "snap" of the dog, which Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold made note of in his indispensable L.A. eating book "Counter Intelligence," didn't quite please me the way a soft, New York city street dog does. Maybe because the city dog is the dog I grew up with.) * Davivd Lebovitz eats at Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower. Strangely enough, I've been there too: my parents took my brother and I to London and Paris when we were too young to appreciate it, though I remember getting dressed up and riding the elevator up into the belly of the Eiffel Tower for dinner. When we asked for our table, the maitre'd kindly informed us that there'd be a small wait because "the American actress Sally Field hasn't gotten up yet." When she got up, we asked for her picture and she said no....
