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Marble Lane wins Food Network’s 2012 NYC Sandwich Showdown
Francis ChinPosted on October 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe winning sandwich: Marble Lane’s Kobe Patty Melt.(photo by Francis Chin / Meniscus Magazine) Steps away from Food Network’s Manhattan headquarters lie the Highline Stages which, on Oct. 14, transformed into an extravanganza of sandwiches – be it on potato roll, baguette or hoagie – as part of the 2012 Food Network NYC Wine & Food Festival, a four-day culinary charity benefit.In the end, it was a beef patty and mel... -
Bobby Flay feeding frenzy kicks off Food Network Festival
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 9, 2008 | No Comments...he of Mesa Grill and “Throwdown!” fame who also happened to be hosting the “Chelsea Market After Dark” event that kicked off the inaugural Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival. In a way, it was only a matter of time for the Festival to hit the Big Apple; the Food Network’s main studios are located in the Chelsea Market, and given the city’s gastronomic history and a string of wildly successful annual editions of its predecessor, th... -
2010 Food Network NYC Festival: Milk, cookies and stone crabs
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 1, 2011 | No Commentsare two events that fit both categories. Stone crab and not much else at the Hotel Gansevoort. (photo by Bibs Teh / Meniscus Magazine) On Oct. 9, Martha Stewart hosted the Breville’s Milk & Cookies event at The New York Times Building. Scores of ticketholders – notably parents with small children – were treated to all-you-can-eat cookies, all-you-can-dunk milk, cookie-making stations and recipes as Stewart stayed for the majority of the ev... -
Ming Tsai, babe magnet?
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 3, 2012 | 2 Commentsack at the inaugural 2010 “Rock & Roll with Morimoto and Friends” held at the Harvard Club. Part all-you-can-eat sushi buffet and part watch-the-chefs-embarrass-themselves-while-singing-karaoke gig, the 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. time slot meant that original Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto was potentially front and center, chopping a giant tuna one minute and belting in Japanese the next. But Morimoto was upstaged. Those dethroning honors went to a jov... -
The Tim Tam Test: U.S.A. vs. Australia
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 21, 2008 | No CommentsDuring a 2002 trip to Australia, a friend insisted that I partake in the wonder of Arnott’s Tim Tams, or a “Milk Chocolate coated chocolate biscuit sandwich with a chocolate cream filling,” as the wrapper reads nowadays. Above (top): The Australian package, by way of the U.K. (photo by Yuan-Kwan Chan)Above (bottom): The Pepperidge Farm U.S. version, coming to a Target store near you in November. (photo by Bibs Teh) So I carefully enclosed a pac... -
NYC Wine & Food Festival’s artery-clogging Burger Bash
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on January 1, 2013 | No Comments...t.” If that indeed was the case, that particular burger lover certainly chose an event that raised her cholesterol count for life. Boasting its largest competitive field ever with 29 burgers up for grabs, the 2012 Food Network NYC Wine & Food Festival ran its annual burger contest at Pier 39 Basketball City. The popular Food Network chef starlet Rachael Ray hosted the event following a hiatus last year, as attendees made the outdoor r... -
Food Network Festival guests satisfy sweet tooth
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 12, 2009 | No CommentsNot for the diabetic or faint of heart, Godiva Chocolatier presented the SWEET event at the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival on Oct. 10, 2009. More than 50 restaurants and companies fed desserts to patrons at la.venue during a three-hour late evening event of serious saccharine overload. Standouts included Sweetiepie Restaurant Chef Humberto Guallpa’s miniature tiered Trio Micro Cakes served in flavors of chocolate, lemon and... -
Bacon, blues and expanding bellies at the Food Network NYC Festival
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments...of the hotel’s tiny High Line Room. Presented by Thrillist and hosted by chef Tyler Florence (who actually did not have a dish on offer), the Bacon & the Blues event was the very first on a packed agenda at the 2009 Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival. To the tune of The Crooners, guests assembled in a packed room to gorge on all things bacon and pork. Here’s a complete roundup of all the dishes, in alphabetical order: Bacon... -
Plate by Plate food benefit supports Manhattan’s Chinatown
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on November 15, 2010 | No CommentsProject by Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the Asian American community, ran its third and final Plate by Plate food tasting gala of the year in New York on Oct. 1. Of the three chapters – the others are L.A. and San Francisco – New York has had the longest run, celebrating its 12th straight year of fine food, silent auctions, celebrity appearances and entertainment. All the proceeds from the event benefited The Hamilto... -
New Japanese food products hit the Big Apple
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 21, 2006 | No CommentsAuthor and culinary expert Hiroko Shimbo, right, invites attendees to sample some of her sushi creations from a demonstration and lecture at the 2006 Japanese Food & Restaurant Show in New York. (photo by Yuan-Kwan Chan / Meniscus Magazine) The melting pot that is New York City has inevitably created a wealth of culinary options. Japanese food, in particular, is well-represented, from the yakitori and okonomiyaki hole-in-the-wall joints...
