Diep Tran, the chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette — a winsome spot in Los Angeles with a straightforward declaration of culinary intent: "American diner meets Vietnamese comfort food" — was the first to sing the praises to me of Red Boat, a brand of nuoc mam nhi, or first press, "extra virgin" fish sauce from the island of Phu Quoc.
By the time she became, as the Washington Post put it, "the first Housewife of the Nation," she had developed a straightforward message about her culinary goals.
Though they could dine anywhere, and certainly proprietors of New York's most distinguished restaurants would personally cook anything for them, many culinary luminaries choose straightforward fare when they kick back.
One food critic attributed Schwa's early attention to its unusual combination of "culinary alchemy" and "straightforward Italian cuisine".
Friends and colleagues said at the dinner, which was at SD26 in Chelsea, Mrs. Hazan was remembered as a rigorous teacher, a fond mother, a brilliant and straightforward cook and a curmudgeon on culinary matters.
In the annals of culinary fiction, food is often a straightforward metaphor for love, a vehicle for pleasure, comfort, connection, creativity, or fulfillment.
Such straightforward pleasures are not what you expect from a culinary provocateur.
But such straightforward pleasures are not what you expect from a culinary provocateur.
An obvious statement of purpose, perhaps, but mired as we are in a period of culinary confusion during which froths and melanges often muddy the tastes and blur the components, Wakuda's straightforward preparations focus on only one and then work imaginatively to enhance it.
Coinciding with a recent lap-band surgery and enrollment in culinary school, Vento has been exploring low-fat and low-cholesterol options in an effort to update the currently straightforward Geno's menu.
