david lebovitz: blog notes

david lebovitz: blog notes   search my blog:       click here for exciting information about upcoming chocolate and culinary tours   categories... candy & sweets celebrity chef interviews chocolate global paris & france david's favorite posts dining & travel europe france usa faqs food blog links ice cream tips paris food markets parisian culture pastry shops restaurants travel tips recipes shf: chocolate by brand whining wine-ing   amazon.com widgets   add me to your rss:         read my faqs     visit david's flickr page www.flickr.com this is a flickr badge showing public photos from daveleb. make your own badge here.   archives september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 june 2006 may 2006 april 2006 march 2006 february 2006 january 2006 december 2005 november 2005 october 2005 september 2005 august 2005 july 2005 june 2005 may 2005 april 2005   "best chef's food blog 2006"   "the best food blog in the world"   "blog watch 2006"   "top ten food blogs" by about.com   "best city food blog 2005"   « chocolate-espresso mousse cake main cantal » blog notes april 24, 2007 kudos! a big congratulations to karen page and andrew dornenburg for winning the iacp cookbook of the year with what you drink with what you eat. out of the seemingly zillions of cookbooks that come out each year, to be recognized by your peers so highly is quite an honor. and just in case you forgot, you heard about it here first with my interview. new & notable cookbooks a few other notable cookbooks are out, including heidi swanson's super natural cooking, which has been getting well-deserved kudos. i plan to write up more about the book, including a delicious strategy for incorporating whole-grains in chocolates. and i don't mean cakes, brownies and cookies, i mean chocolate itself. stay tuned... clotilde's book chocolate & zucchini is on it's way as well, and i'm looking forward to diving into some of her all-new recipes. although i've already sneaked a peek, after the terrific write-up in the ny times, i'm sure her loyal fans and a legion of new ones, will be as delighted as i am with her book. i also couldn't be more thrilled that jane grigson's vegetable book and jane grigson's fruit book are back in print. her fruit book is one of my all-time favorite cookbooks (actually, it's perhaps in my top 3!) and the introduction to the new edition of the vegetable book is written by super-duper food blogger amy sherman. faq's in other news, i'm putting on my monsieur grouchy face here, and i don't mean like mr. french presidental candidate. (ouch!...that looked, and sounded, like it hurt.) although i love hearing from you, gentle and dearest of readers, i do ask that you kindly look at the faq's before sending me specific requests. there's tons of information and links there from everything from planning your trip to paris to my advice on favorite chocolatiers and lots, lots more. although i try to respond to as many messages individually as i can, i generally can't improve on the information already given there. also, i can't answer emails or messages that don't have a proper salutation. one suggestion when writing to someone, especially someone you don't know personally, is to begin a message with the person's name: ie "dear david" when i get messages that simply command me to forward information, i'm certain they couldn't possibly be intended for me. chocolate tours i've just announced a new culinary tour taking place september 14-16, 2007 la dolce vita in florence, italy with my good friend judy witts francini. it's an entire weekend devoted to the best of tuscany, including too-much gelato, shots of espresso, and an in-depth market tour with me and judy. we'll also visit judy's good friend, famed butcher dario cecchini's at his new restaurant. come join us for this fun-filled weekend! (but don't worry...i'm not eating the tripe sandwich at the market either...) you can sign up at judy's site (above). for those of you who missed this year's paris chocolate exploration tour with me and mort rosenblum, the next one is planned for may 4 to may 10, 2008. more information about these will be posted on my chocolate tours page shortly. upcoming book tour and us classes thanks to those of you who've written asking me to come to your city to teach a class. my schedule is set-in-stone at this point, so if you want to see me—like those ill-fated lemmings tumbling off a cliff, you'll have to come to me. i'm teaching a slew of classes on parisian chocolate desserts and ice-cream making in texas, northern california, and in the seattle area and i'd love to meet as many of you as possible. registration for most schools should be open by now and you can find exact dates and locations on my schedule page. there's a book party and chocolate tasting at theo chocolate in seattle that's open to the public as well as a book event at ici in berkeley, ca as well. come join the fun! flickr you may or may know this, but i have a flickr page where i post random photos of like and food in paris, including information about bakeries and pastry shops on occasion. check it out. ...or don't. spring in paris one of the most talked-about restaurants in paris this spring is spring, chef-owner daniel rose's tiny restaurant which seats just 16 people each night. while daniel presides over the open kitchen, the charming server floats through the dining room offering bread from a generous basket and unobtrusively refilling wine glasses. although the menu changes nightly, you can be assured of market-fresh food no matter when you go. i don't normally do restaurant reviews here on the site, since when i go out to dinner i go to enjoy myself, (sorry readers...), we had a wonderful foie gras plate with shredded raw beets showered over the top and a succulent duck breast that was meltingly-smooth. there's no choice so if you're a finicky eater, keep that in mind. of course, i was sure there'd be squid. luckily, there wasn't. (but to the group of six of my compatriots who drank too much and talked so loud that the nice people at the table next to them who haven't seen each other in months found it impossible to carry on a conversation and had to shoot them a dirty look once in a while just to teach them how to behave in a restaurant and even though your conversation was peppered with name-dropping and talking about the fancy apartment that you own in the fancy-schmancy seventh arrondissement loud enough so that everyone in the restaurant has no choice but to listen to you and your friends carry on about how fabulous they are and one gets so drunk that she steps on your shiny, brand-new trippen shoe, perhaps next time you should lower your voice a couple of notches so other people can enjoy their experience too. class doesn't mean how expensive your apartment is, how much wine you can order, or how much you can show off to your friends how hip you are even though you're not in the least to the rest of us. class means good manners and consideration for others—which, of course, i know all about.) the place is now on the radar, and a food writer was there preparing for a possible article in the us press, so go now if you can. and i promise if i'm there, i'll keep my mouth (relatively) shut. spring 28 rue de la tour d'auvergne (9th) tél: 01 45 96 05 72 (reservations obligatory) permalink comments oh my! your parenthetical reference to loudmouthed americans deserves to be in all caps. folks, when you raise your voice in restaurants outside the u.s. everyone else rolls their eyes at you. nothing says "rubes" like a bunch of shrieking yahoos who drown out everyone around them. posted by steve at april 24, 2007 10:48 am i picked up clotidle's book a month ago and i have been bouncing off the walls over her recipes. i like to refer to her recipes as "creative friendly", meaning you can substitute a few ingredients as you please. posted by eye_carl at april 24, 2007 1:08 pm trippen! my favorites. though isn't that lady lucky that you didn't step on her? those things are heavy. posted by luisa at april 24, 2007 2:25 pm just came back from paris over easter, thanks for the recommendation to denise acabo's... i'm in love with that chocolate! those dogs at central market won't open your class up for registration until the first week or so of may... i'll be there even if i have to use some parisian "manners" to get to the front of the line! thanks for all the great info on paris, and i'm loving the perfect scoop! posted by kami at april 24, 2007 2:59 pm david - we also enjoyed spring recently - it is a great restaurant and daniel's personality really makes it work. more like a dinner part than a restaurant. it is a small space so loud english speakers stand out - i think we were lucky the couple who started off loud mellowed as the night wore on. regards, phil ps - look forward to buying your book when i can persuade the cfo to finance an ice cream maker...! posted by phild at april 24, 2007 5:39 pm hi david, you are so brilliant, can i steal this? also, i can't answer emails or messages that don't have a proper salutation. one suggestion when writing to someone, especially someone you don't know personally, is to begin a message with the person's name: ie "dear david" when i get messages that simply command me to forward information, i'm certain they couldn't possibly be intended for me. yes! thank you for putting into words what has been driving me crazy. posted by elise at april 25, 2007 12:30 am david.. no tripe and no squid.. you are being difficult aren't you? how about stuffed chicken necks? posted by diva at april 25, 2007 10:42 am can't wait to check out these cookbooks. love reading your blog! posted by lizzy at april 25, 2007 2:28 pm je t'aime posted by sam at may 4, 2007 10:24 pm « chocolate-espresso mousse cake main cantal »   photo courtesy of christopher hirsheimer   blogher ad network more from blogher advertise here blogher privacy policy         subscribe to receive periodic email updates from david enter your email address    subscribe    unsubscribe         visit the travel blogs ad network and the food blog ad network to advertise here.   latest entries... sans beurre the man-purse banana bread, or banana cake salonenque olives news flash! get-together next weekend at city bakery in new york! why think, when i can link? paris x 3 and here's to you, mrs. roberts son mon pain de sucre my mortar & pestle             home • my books • bio • chocolate tours • my paris • schedule • recipes • links © 1999 - 2007 david lebovitz, all rights reserved  

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