http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com 2 Brothers cooking adventures. And we wrote a cookbook. And it's awesome. This tagline needs work... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a newish McDonald's radio commercial. It is amazing. One of the V.O.'s utters the line "I'm gonna send a sweet tea tweet up and down the street." It's one of the best radio commercials I've heard in a while for 3 main reasons. 1) it contains the line "I'm gonna send a sweet ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/im-gonna-send-a-sweet-tea-tweet-up-and-down-the-street Today the Detroit Free Press, or as adoring Michiganders refer to it - The Freep,  published a slide show that had my heartstrings a' strumming and my belly a' aching. Faygo! Sliders! Greek Salads! Ray's Ice Cream! Can life's moments (pre-LA) be so intrinsically tied to the cuisine of a city? You know when ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/detroit-where-middle-eastern-greek-and-polish-food-traditions-reign-almost-supreme-and-the-coney-dog-is-still-king On Saturday evening I was perusing the aisles of Whole Foods gathering desirables to create a delicious dinner. Potentially thousands (if not millions) of people around the United States at that very moment were engaged in the exact same activity - weaving through aisles making specific determinations about groceries. Now we could analyze ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/sustainable-fish-at-whole-foods-fishy-indeed The sandwich, the sammy, the sambone is an art. Crafting the perfect sandwich requires balancing the right ingredients, bread, temperature and sauce to engineer a finished product worthy of human consumption and blogger photography. L.A. has legit awesome sandwiches found all over town. Here now, are my 4 current favorite restaurant sandwiches in LA. ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/elis-top-5-l-a-sambones The new "From Market to Menu" article on LAist just went live! Chef Richmond talks about her new passion for jamming (like...making jam, not rocking out), working as a private chef for Michael Jackson and how and why she made the move to Culver City to open up her restaurant - ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/new-laist-com-interview-with-chef-akasha-richmond Thank you to Leah Ingram from The Suddenly Frugal Blog :  http://www.suddenlyfrugal.com/ for featuring our cookbook on NBC 10 Philadelphia! Please check out her blog for amazing frugal living tips. http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/gift-ideas-for-teachers-and-grads-nbc-10-philadelphia With my one day off this week (falling on Memorial Day) I decided to cook up a storm and invite some people over to our new place in Park Slope as it has a backyard (a true rarity in NYC).  Being a cook at a restaurant I don't have much free ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/max-is-alive-out-from-the-breslin-for-a-day-off-he-cooks Umm....AH-MAY-ZING. So we got booked at this and we are totally honored to be a part of such a kick-ass culinary field.  Max is flying into LA so we hope to have at least one other event while he on the golden coast. We are already planning on where to eat when ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/us-at-the-pacific-wine-and-food-festival-max-in-la A controversy emerged this week after Ron Leiber was kicked out of  Restaurant Marc Forgionein TriBeCa. Now, this wouldn't have been such a massive deal except that Ron Leiber just happens to write for one of the most powerful news entities in the world - The NY Times. So it was with great ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/an-ego-explosion-during-the-dinner-rush-creates-controversy-and-divides-nyc For the past several months I have been working as part of the Taste of the Nation: Los Angeles Marketing Team. The event, held June 6th in Culver City at the Media Park (across from the Trader Joe's) is the premiere chef event in the city. It's really insane how ... http://www.freshmaninthekitchen.com/taste-of-the-nation-los-angeles-june-6th-media-park-culver-city