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Friday, July 20, 2007
New Cookbook to Check Out
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For those of you who enjoy listening to the talk show “Chef and the Fat Man,” you can extend your interest to the printed page with the release of the team’s first cookbook, “Red White and Blue (Collar) Cookin’” (Apex Publishing, June 2007). The book features 182 recipes, from apple duff to white turkey chili, and retails for $14.95. “Chef and the Fatman,” airs on Business Radio 1160 the CFO, WLSB-1400 AM, WYHG-770 AM and WALH-1340 AM.
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The “Sunday Share” at Ecco
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Starting this Sunday, July 22, Ecco restaurant will offer evenings of family-style dining around a communal table for $25 per person, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The events are scheduled through September 9. Each Sunday will provide a canopy for exploring a theme concentrating on different regions of the world and allow diners to meet and commune. This Sunday’s theme is “France, Meet Morocco.” Reservations are required. To reserve a spot, call 404-347-9555. Ecco, 40 7th Street, www.fifthgroup.com
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Gordon Ramsay is the funniest bleeping chef around
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay, who reduces wannabe chefs to tears in “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox, really lets loose in his BBC America series, “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.”
In the first episode this season, when he visits a British expat’s failing restaurant on a Spanish beach, he may have reached a career high in trashing the prawns in chocolate sauce, the patio strewn with dog droppings (AJC editors are much pickier about profanities than the BBC America crew), and the chicken-and-banana entree. When I stepped out of the room for a minute and returned, all I could hear was a steady bleeping from the TV.
He’s got a ton of series — are any not worth watching? Is he better when he’s chatting up the likes of Sharon Osborne or cursing apprentices into permanent donkey-dom?
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Hey Day for the Valet
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Have you ever handed your keys over to the valet and wondered if they’re driving your cute car while you’re eating? I’m pretty sure that the valet at a Midtown restaurant I dined at last night took my car for a joy ride — the odometer was different, both seats were moved and things just seemed out of place. Remember that scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Yeah. Do you think this has ever happened to you?
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