Cochon 555, a national culinary competition and tasting event celebrating all things pork, kicks off its fifth anniversary tour on Feb. 10 in New York at Chelsea Piers, located at West 23rd Street and the Hudson River.
California chefs have been selling foie gras at such an accelerated rate, they can barely keep up, both because of consumer demand and because of their decadent tasting menus celebrating the ingredient.
Italian-American cuisine is not beloved by the arbiters of good taste, who celebrate risotto alla Milanese but ignore baked ziti, garlic bread, spaghetti and meatballs and lobster fra diavolo.
The question is, is a collector who wins public praise for having a good eye or flawless taste being celebrated for their critical astuteness in identifying a neglected work's lasting aesthetic value and its importance within the artistic tradition?
A Chinese aphorism, "sleeping on sticks and tasting gall," celebrates his determination to remember the shame and humiliation he suffered — and to draw strength from it.
Wine and More Wine A wine dinner celebrating Sardinia will give guests a taste of five wines paired with a tasting menu on Monday at Tarallucci e Vino, 475 Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, from 8 to 10 p.m.
The lowest depths of bad taste are plumbed by people carried away celebrating the fun of their own national musical heritage.
Saam at the Bazaar, a private tasting room at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, is celebrating Valentine's Day with an 18-course black truffle tasting menu.
Some nativist reactions were relatively benign: romantic poetry celebrating the native soul, or a taste for folkloric roots.
Morgan M, the best restaurant around for mollifying militant veggies and hardcore carnivores (they get a tasting menu each - both are superb), is celebrating its fifth birthday next month.
