When foodies make friends, their plates are full!

Tomorrow: An old-fashioned recipe travels well. I have a new friend. I’ve never met her. She used to call me about restaurants when I was at The Advertiser. Then, one day — I still don’t know where she got my cell phone number — she called me at home with another...

If at first . . .

In the whipped cream-light realm of reality TV, “Top Chef” is practically PBS. Conflicts rarely erupt into physical violence. The profanity is rather tame. And people say things like “feel the love” and mean it. (Okay, Carla may be the only one...

Everything I know….

… I learned from “Top Chef.” Have you noticed that every time a chef on “Top Chef” brags on themselves they come in on the bottom? Every time they say I’ve made this a million times in my restaurant, I’ve got the win in the...