Douglas Hodge makes a doomed sense out of the Emperor's disintegration: he begins by barking his lines like a sergeant major, and ends by capering around his human pies, chef's hat wagging, mouth leering, eyes winking, the most nuttily imperial of celebrity cooks.
The cooking's right on the money, too, whether it's a hearty, beer-based Flemish stew or pie, the chef's take on bouillabaisse, or vol-au-vents so tasty you wonder how they ever got a bad name.
No. 4 was the vintage strawberry pie pastry chef Roxana Jullapat made when she visited the test kitchen for a video.
ConAgra's pot pies and Chef Boyardee canned pastas are both seeing increased sales.
Steve Kapelonis prepared falafel and feta cheese pies as chef at Eva's Middle Eastern restaurant on West Eighth Street for 15 years before opening the Pump with his wife, Elena.
We started with the pigeon pie, which the chef Arnaud Vaumerel constructed like a beef Wellington — the meat coated with foie gras and a duxelles of porcini mushrooms before it is wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
In 2011, Waitrose launched his new range of pine sugar-flavoured mince pies, which the chef declared were "delicious eaten warm from the oven and then sprinkled with pine sugar for a Christmas tree aroma".
The Friendship Cottage Cheese truck will roam the streets of New York starting Tuesday on 28th Street between Park and Madison Avenues and offer free samples including, on Tuesday only, apple pie smoothies by the chef Rocco DiSpirito.
– Glenn Collins Men's Journal: Speaking of Quebec, here's the recipe for a tourtière de ville – or meat pie – from Martin Picard, the chef and owner of Montreal's Au Pied de Cochon.
While Griffiths's varied performances thrilled audiences, from detective-turned-chef in Pie In The Sky on television, to the film farce Naked Gun 2½ and Alan Bennett's The Habit Of Art at the National Theatre, colleagues also hailed his gregarious nature off screen.
