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Cook for hire; Jeffrey Steingarten yields control of his kitchen to a world-class personal chef.
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten
A few years back, I jetted out to the Coast to interview a dozen young chefs whom I had
identified as personal cooks for really famous Hollywood stars. A few of them prepared their Hollywood-star food for me. Though most had signed Draconian nondisclosure agreements with their clients, they quickly crumbled in the face of my advanced interrogation techniques. For the most part, Hollywood stars are either utilitarian eaters (Sigourney Weaver was in training for Alien Resurrection) or ideologues (Tom and Nicole had hired a macrobiotic chef) or somewhere in between (many were on some version of the Zone). Few ate for sheer ...
- smoke dreams; Jeffrey Steingarten goes in search of real Southern barbecue-and...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey August 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten For ten years now, it seems that my chief goal in life has been to cook real barbecue in my own backyard. Home is Manhattan and...
- great grains; Jeffrey Steingarten discovers a secret recipe that turns rice...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey April 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten There we were at Bombay Talkie on Ninth Avenue in New York City, several long hibernal blocks from my house, munching on Bombay...
- the whole truth; Jeffrey Steingarten searches for grains that taste as good as...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey November 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten A whole wheat bread is baking in my oven, and the air smells sweet and warm and toasty. I have my fingers crossed-my luck with...
- fine and brandy; Jeffrey Steingarten tests the ideal method for distilling...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey July 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Apples, apples everywhere. Apples have taken over the kitchen and the borderlands around it. This is not unusual in my business...
- Blame it on rio; Jeffrey Steingarten is seduced by Brazil's potent national...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey August 1, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten What are you doing with a cocktail in your hand?" I asked myself peevishly. I am a malt Scotch man, straight up, no water...
- the fat and the furious; Jeffrey Steingarten takes aim at America's war on...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey April 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Last December, when the board of health here in New York City banned trans fats from all 24,000 of our restaurants, food carts...
- The Food Critic.(Focus: Law)(Jeffrey Steingarten)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business April 3, 2006 700+ words
Jeffrey Steingarten, author of "The Man Who Ate Everything'' and a judge on the Food Network's "Iron Chef,'' is also a Harvard law school...
- on a roll; A perfect burger, Jeffrey Steingarten discovers, largely depends on...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey October 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten National Hamburger Month came early this year, or so it seemed. Maybe it always occupies the month of May. I've dreaded National...
- temptation island; At a luxurious ecoresort in the Maldives, Jeffrey...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey November 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten The last time my wife and I traveled somewhere that offered nothing good to eat was in the seventies, when we went trekking in...
- china fun; On a quest for haute Chinese cuisine, Jeffrey Steingarten seeks out...
- Magazine article from: Vogue Steingarten, Jeffrey September 1, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Chinese cuisine is on the march, everywhere you look, everywhere you go. Did you see that article the other day in the Hindustan...