Generally, the dishes will offer variations on "country" cooking themes.
*With shows like "The Last Supper" and "Dinner With Demons," the Off Broadway menu is already filled with cooking-theme shows.
Try going out on a limb by doing something creative, like organizing a group cooking party, a themed dinner or an old-fashioned tea party.
Not all of it's painful – Dolly wants regular themed cooking evenings and a family games night, which almost breaks my heart – but Jimmy goes for the jugular, demanding a lift anywhere, at any time.
A Valentine's Day-themed cooking class for singles and couples at BLT Fish, 21 West 17th Street, in Chelsea, will cover how to shuck oysters on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Amy Eubanks, the executive chef, will offer tips on how to open the bivalves during the class, which includes a three-course lunch at $80 per person or $130 per couple.
POOR COOKING SKILLS: On one episode of "Emeril Live" -- the theme was cooking in diners -- Mr. Lagasse made a simple patty melt.
You will find recipe ideas right on the soup can labels and there have been entire cookbooks written around the theme of cooking with condensed soups.
His Ruby Keeler moment came in 1995, when he was 24 and cooking at the Swedish-themed Aquavit in New York.
Some have themes, like cooking foods from the book.
The best bits, though, are her memories of growing up in 1960s New York in an Italian-Russian immigrant family (there was no Jell-O at their table) and her short biographies of such figures as Julia Child, the American cook with a love of French cuisine who "transformed cooking into entertainment".Another compelling theme is feminism and food.
