I’m very honored that ReMARKable Palate has been nominated for a Podcast People’s Choice Award for the second year in a row!
Over 281,000 individuals nominated a total of 1,874 podcasts for 22 categories in the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Out of those nominated, only 10 podcasts for each category make it to the actual […]

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Chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s dishes from the special dinner celebrating Pennsylvania foods and beers:
Fried Sweetbreads with bacon and capers

Radishes with sweet butter
Grilled handmade lamb sausages

Roasted Chicken with shaved raw corn and Hen of the Woods Mushrooms

Grilled Prime rib, dry aged

Jumbo Walleye Pike en papillote with Cabbage and Bacon

Smokey Eggplant with parsley potato chips

Chef Hamilton made […]

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We had a great time last night at Per Se at a party hosted by Phaidon for the release of it’s new book “A Day at El Bulli“, celebrating the food of Chef Ferran Adria.
We put out a quick and dirty Fork in the Road video last night after the party, and a fuller video […]

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This is important — now more than ever. Use your voice or lose your voice!

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ReMARKable Palate #163 should now be available both in the feed and via the player on the webpage.  Please let me know if for any reason you are not able to download it. Thanks to the attentive listeners who pointed out the issues.

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This list of 100 food items has been bouncing around the internet lately, and writers and food bloggers have been commenting on what they’ve eaten.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred
These are foods that they think you must try in your lifetime. The ones that are bolded I have eaten and the crossed out ones are ones you’d […]

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Matt Armendariz of www.mattbites.com is now the guest on Martha Stewart. After a so-so segment with Perez Hiltom, now a real food blogger is up.  He’s a food photographer and blogger, and his website, www.mattbites.com, always has beautiful photos.  They’re making double layer Argentine cookies with a Dulce de Leche filling.  Yum!

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So I’m siting in the audience with Jennifer and about 200 other bloggers, awaiting the start of the show. It’s a show all about bloggers and blogging today, so I’m sure that 200 other people are writing the same 2 line post right now, but I’m sure I’ll have more to say as the show […]

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Rolling on the River
An update from the road as I embark on my summer tour of the Southwest. I’m in Tucson for a personal chef conference, and I chill out on the “lazy river” at the Marriott Star Pass Resort, where I’m staying. More later.

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Who knew???
I found a google alert posting on a blog that today is National Personal Chef Day.  I don’t think I’d ever heard of this holiday!
It would have been nice for me to know in advance, I would have had time to hire a PC to make me dinner!!

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ReMARKable Palate Video #36: Chef Mark’s Dog Sledding Adventure
(This is a repost, since I messed up and put the wrong enclosure before. Be sure to download this new one)
One of the absolute highlights of the past few years for me, I finally got to go dog sledding in the frozen […]

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Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV has started an internet phenomenon, and I’m all too happy to participate. He’s declared April 3rd “Good People Day”.
I think this is a great idea. There are tons of good people in my life. You’ve seen many of them featured here on my audio and video […]

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ReMARKable Palate Video #34: Modern Dwellers Chocolates, Part 2
Chef Mark continues his chat with Martha Brigham of Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge in Anchorage Alaska. We learn about some of the unusual (and some may say, crazy!) flavor combinations of their chocolate truffles!
Music: “Go Fish” by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network. music.podshow.com
The […]

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ReMARKable Palate Video #33: Modern Dwellers Chocolates, Pt 1
Chef Mark chats with Martha Brigham of Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge in Anchorage Alaska. We talk about the inspiration for the shop, and taste some of the traditional Mayan drinking chocolate. On the next show, we taste chocolate truffles!
Music: “Go Fish” by Big Money Grip, […]

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ReMARKable Palate Video #32: Alaska Teaser
A short teaser of what’s to come soon from Chef Mark’s journey to the WinterLake Lodge, deep in the frozen wilds of Alaska, and the culinary delights he discovered there.
Music: “Go Fish” by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network. music.podshow.com
The ReMARKable Palate is a production of The […]

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If you’re going to fake some stuff on your resume, at least pick something that isn’t so easily verified! Lie about cooking for the Jones’s down the street, not the most famous woman on the planet!
NEW YORK — After rising to culinary stardom preparing impossible meals on his Food Network series, Robert Irvine has […]

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My good friend Amy Mac, host of the Fitness Attack Podcast, is releasing her book today! Go check it out on Amazon and buy a copy for yourelf. You’ll love Amy’s no-nonsense approach to fitness and feeling good!
After more than 400 Fitness Attack episodes, the first 100 areavailable in print! The Fitness Attack […]

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FYI, I’m going to be stepping up my blogging again, and posting events I get invitations for that may be of interest to my listeners and readers. Here’s one that sounds like fun, and I know the owners of Pour, it’s a GREAT wine shop:
Good Enough to Drink (and Eat!)
A super-charged wine class with […]

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I got this notice in the email:
Tiny New York Meatpacking District restaurant Jarnac will turn 8-years-old but celebrate just its 2nd birthday on the coming leap-year day of Friday, February 29.
The famous 32-seat French restaurant on the corner of West 12th and Greenwich St opened on February 29, 2000 – another leap-year day.
Owner Tony Powe […]

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I spoke with listener Shawn Dreelin on ReMARKable Palate #127, and he told us how he constructed a cold smoker setup in his backyard. As promised, here are the photos of the setup.

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