The C-CAP, or Careers through Culinary Arts Program held their 2018 annual benefit on the last day of February. It featured over 30 of NYC’s finest Restaurants and chefs. Since founded in 1990 by Richard Grausman , a cookbook author and culinary educator, C-CAP is a non-profit that assists over 20,000 students a year in […]
From within an Avalanche of rubble…. Cactus spikes form, erecting defensive stubble Where the dimples of a smile ought to reign, Gazans strain like the foreign Canary Pine trees dry out in Palestine. Brave men transform into solid sticks yearning to lift concrete Stones off beloveds’ bones … They cannot. Cage-like crosses of […]
The beautiful Dragon Dance, amid a Chinese New Year’s dinner at Phillippe Chow had me wondering all about the culture –once again. Serving classic Beijing style cuisine amid the luxury, tavern-like ambiance, glamorous crispy duck, carved out into perfection by the founder himself—Phillip Chow—walnut seasoned prawn, chicken satay, dancing dragons, and a golden specialty ‘yunbao’ cocktail […]
