We all know how great Wagyu beef is, that amazing breed of cattle from Japan…but most of us (including me, for a long time!) consider it a vicarious thrill…it’s too…
2013 was a great year for me, and my travel agent. I trod the globe restlessly, ever eager for a good answer to the eternal question: “where’s dinner?” Here are…
If you remember the TV show of this name from the 1990s…no, all this has nothing to do with Robin Leach! Merry Robin (see the end of this story for…
If you ask an Italian where the best food is in Italy, you almost always get the same answer. “Eh,” they like to say. “At my mother’s house!”…looking like “how…
PART ONE: AMSTERDAM Dear reader, as you’ve perhaps inferred from a few earlier posts…I was dazzled by my April/May 2013 trip to a country I’d somehow never visited before…Holland! We’ll…
Julia Child, goddess (on this side of the pond) of French gastronomyPhoto courtesy of Jon Chase/jonchase.com La Super Rica Taqueria, in Santa Barbara, California, Julia Child’s favorite restaurant late in…
It has been a dream, for years, to slap my name on a great tin of caviar. Well, I’m selling outstanding products now, as you know…including some of the world’s…
London has my heart. It was the first European city I ever visited. I fell in love instantly, and I shall never fall out of love. (As Samuel Johnson said…
Rosengarten Classic. Originally Published: ROSENGARTEN REPORT, November 2002. At year-end holiday time, Americans are highly imaginative in their party-planning: we’re likely to draw on American ideas, British ideas, Italian ideas, French…
