Nancy Rommelmann

[This is part two of an interview with David Machado of Vindalho and Lauro restaurants. You can find part one by clicking here.]So, a guy walks into a bar, and _________. While you can fill in the blank with any number of amnesiacs asking, "Do I come here often?" and baby seals ordering "anything but a Canadian Club," perhaps only once has the punch-line been, "walks out … [Read more...] about Interview: David Machado, Part II

So, a guy walks into a bar, and _________. While you can fill in the blank with any number of amnesiacs asking, "Do I come here often?" and baby seals ordering "anything but a Canadian Club," perhaps only once has the punch-line been, "walks out with the bartender's job." Dave Machado gets to tell the joke. Beginning at the bottom more than twenty years and half as many … [Read more...] about Interview: Dave Machado

Last Friday morning, I received a call from an acquaintance, saying, “Molly O’Neill is in town; do you think you have time to interview her?” I said, I’ll make time, and in fact, will crawl with O’Neill’s New York Cookbook in my teeth for a chance to meet her.“Oh, we need to go to Powell’s and get you a new copy,” said O’Neill, seeing the spatters and stains and missing … [Read more...] about Interview: Molly O’Neill

There are chefs who present their craft as precious and arcane as a Faberge egg. There are steady-eyed technicians who get the job done, hold the romance. And there’s an amalgam of the two, the gourmand who craves wild striped bass but whose inner pragmatist knows he must serve rockfish, the culinary general who steadily leads the troops through truffles that won’t sell and … [Read more...] about Interview: Chef Philippe Boulot