Zingerman’s, the famed Michigan gourmet shop and extensive online specialty website, is having a Winter Oops We Bought Too Much Food Sale. Score deals on Zingerman’s brand gourmet goods as well as smoked sea salt from Wales, candied chestnuts, and a super special bottle of one hundred year old balsamic vinegar, on sale from [...]

If you’ve been saving your pennies, queue up tomorrow night at Sotheby’s for a very special auctioning of the private cellar of Baroness Philippine de Rothschild of Chateau Mouton Rothschild. The lion’s share of the auction will be bottles from and of her legendary First Growth Chateau. Bottlings date from the 1887 vintage through [...]

With snow on the ground, the Academy Awards approaching, and parties being planned, preparing hot toddies for your get-together will be a welcome, relaxing bonus to the highly anticipated evening.
Scots named it for a specific type of palm tree juice, but today, the Toddy is more commonly a mix of brandy, hot water, lemon, cinnamon, [...]

The Dish had a chance to sit down with angel face Culinista™ Josie Gordon last week and hear what she had to say about minced meat and macaroni, a perfect roasted chicken, and tasting raw custards.
Dish: How did you get interested in food?
JG: I grew up in a Caribbean family and food is just the [...]

Purple, green, and gold are the colors to look out for in bakery windows this afternoon if you want to score a piece of the traditional Mardi Gras treat, King Cake. The New Orleans delicacy is a ring-shaped cake covered in purple, green, and gold icing and twisted with anything from fruit to nuts [...]

Staying in for pizza can be romantic and fun on Valentines Day…so long as you’re equipped to make a good pie. On a tip from a culinary-oriented friend, my mother purchased a pizza stone. Both mother and friend discussed how the idea of a pizza stone just seems like one extra gadget in [...]

It’s too late to book a table and too late to call a bakery and order your favorite cake; it’s even too late to call on your Culinista™ to help you whip up a Valentines Day treat. In this emergency, it’s never too late to call on the Cake (mix) Doctor.
On Valentines Day, people [...]

Romance and a glass of wine have gone hand in hand for a long time.
Each year, Union Square Wines & Spirits hosts a sultry Valentines Day tasting. The Salon is stocked with spirits that will get anyone in the mood. This year, however, the tasting is unabashedly targeted towards singles looking to score…great [...]

Roasting garlic is a user-friendly method of enjoying it without the abrasiveness of the raw version. It’s a very simple method in itself. Cut a garlic head in half, width-wise and preheat your oven to 350°. Drizzle the garlic with olive oil and wrap it in foil. Bake for 45 to [...]

As the Blue Ribbon Empire opens up its seventh outpost in total—Blue Ribbon Bar—the Dish recollects favorites from each existing restaurant. (And, they are all wonderful places to go with your sweetie on Valentines Day.)
Since 1992, the Bromberg brothers, Bruce and Eric, have launched Blue Ribbon (1992), Blue Ribbon Sushi (1995), Blue Ribbon Bakery (1997), [...]