Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Chinese Almond Cookies
Just a Reminder
I am at the Manhattan West Side Jewish Community Center (JCC) tonight. Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, I am demonstrating and signing books at Chef Central in Paramus. On Thursday evening, I am at the Chef Central in Hartsdale. On Friday afternoon, I will be at Jerry’s Gourmet in Englewood. For details, check out my appearance schedule.
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Saturday, November 27, 2004
Reminders
I will be at Sickles Market in Little Silver, New Jersey today from noon to 3 p.m. Tomorrow, Sunday, I will be at Morty the Knife Man in Farmingdale, Long Island -- same hours. On Monday, Kings Cooking Studios, is giving me a big party at the Madison Hotel in Madison, New Jersey. It starts at 6:30, and the price of the reception includes a copy of my new book, which I will, of course, autograph for you.
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An Announcement & Celery Soup
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Maven Makes "The Record"
Pat Mack of the Record, the north New Jersey newspaper, has written a wonderful story about me and my new book. Check it out by clicking here.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
A few reminders
I will be at the Scarsdale Borders tonight at 7 p.m. Then I don’t resurface until Saturday at noon, when I will be at the great Sickles Market (and greenhouse) in Little Silver, New Jersey. On Sunday at noon, I am planting myself at Morty the Knife Man in Farmingdale, Long Island. See my appearance schedule for my other dates and places.
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Sunday, November 21, 2004
My Thanksgiving Menu
It’s Sunday, but there’s no time for rest for a book author doing promotion. I am off to the Bayside Barnes & Noble this morning. I’m arriving at 1 p.m. Hope to see many of you there.
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Thursday, November 18, 2004
Thanksgiving Wines
Just a reminder: Tomorrow night, Friday, November 19, I will be signing books at the Huntington Barnes & Noble. Somehow this was omitted from my appearance schedule (you know, stuff happens), but I definitely will be there. At 7 p.m. until … no one else wants a book signed, or the store closes, which comes first.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Thanksgiving at My House
For the first time in at least 10 years -- when, diverging from our usual routine, I celebrated Thanksgiving at my then-home in Connecticut, with my family, for a long, memorable weekend -- Thanksgiving is at my house this year. My sister, Andrea, and brother-in-law, Milt, have hosted this holiday since my nephew was born. That would be 26 Thanksgivings ago. Brian is now a doctor. His sister, Rachel, is getting her masters degree in social work this spring. In fact, it is because Rachel is visiting from St. Louis, and Brian is a doctor, a first-year resident at a Manhattan hospital, that I selfishly decided to take on the burden (ha!) of Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to spend more than just dinnertime with Rachel – she and her parents will arrive on Wednesday, giving us a night of down time together. Brian can’t leave his Manhattan hospital until early evening, making it impossible to get to his parent’s in New Jersey before it would be time to return.
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Monday, November 15, 2004
More lunching around, more reminders
Just a reminder: There are still some places left at the dinner I am hosting to benefit the Jewish Federation of Greater Monmouth County this Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 p.m. This is a very special community-wide event featuring a dinner of old-time New York dishes that I planned and will speak about. Jewish Federation provides food and sustenance for individuals and families locally, in Israel and worldwide. To attend, guests are asked to make a minimum family donation of $500, payable throughout 2005. Call (732) 866-4300. Copies of my new book will be available for purchase and signing.
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Sunday, November 14, 2004
Lunching Around
Just a Reminder … I will be at the Lincoln Center Barnes and Noble tomorrow evening (Monday) at 7 p.m. I’ll be giving a short talk on the history of food in New York City, then signing books. On Tuesday, I’ll be signing at Book Ends in Ridgewood, New Jersey, also starting at 7 p.m.
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Just a Reminder
I will be demonstrating Steak Diane (and offering tastes) in Macy’s Cellar, Herald Square, tomorrow (Friday) at 1 p.m. Steak Diane is one of the legendary recipes in “Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food,” which I will be autographing.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
New Newsletter and a Wine Buy
If you are reading this page, you must have noticed the new box at the top. There is a similar sign-up-for the newsletter box on my home page, too. It my new mailing list -- so to speak. I know, I know -- I asked you to send me email so I could put together a list, but this is so much more efficient -- and permanent. And no one will ever again get anyone else's email address because I didn't click on the right box. So -- please, please put your address in that box above. Even if you have sent me mail recently. There will soon also be a more inter-active place on the site, so we can have a conversation going -- not quite like it used to be on the radio, but progress in my efforts to keep the food talk with Arthur going. The only thing I miss about the radio is you all.
Now, here’s Carol Berman’s Wine Buy of the Week. She will be doing one every Wednesday, as in radio days. Carol is back on the radio, not so by the way. She can now be heard on Friday mornings, 7:10 a.m., on WLIE 540AM, which, as its call letters imply, is based on Long Island but can be eard in New York City, as well as parts of New Jersey. For her Class in a Glass services – planning and executing wine tastings and wine-based events -- call her at (973) 324-0989.
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Monday, November 8, 2004
My Book Hits Stores, Plus New Park Slope Restaurants
I’ve been practicing making Steak Diane, the old warhorse that was served in supper clubs and other glamorous watering holes from the 1930s through the ‘60s. ‘21’ still serves it, prepared tableside and flambéed, but the reason I have been cooking it is because it is one of my demonstration dishes for upcoming book promotion appearances. The recipe is in “Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food,” and now that the book is being shelved in stores (and available on Amazon.com) I begin talking about it, cooking from it, and signing it this Friday at Macy’s Herald Square – 1 p.m. Come see me if you can. I’ll give you a taste of the famous Steak Diane. If you can’t make it on Friday, on Saturday I will be at Broadway Panhandler, 477 Broome St., between Greene and Wooster, also at 1 p.m., also flambéing pans of Steak Diane.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2004
My Girlfriend's Back!
“What’s happened to the Wine Chick?” has now superceded “Do you talk to Joan?” as the number one question I hear these days.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Lamb Shanks in Tomato Sauce
I went to a new butcher the other day and he had the most beautiful lamb shanks in his case. I took four. I love lamb shanks. But what to do with them this time? In my new book, I have Tom Valenti’s famous recipe for lamb shanks, the recipe that launched his career and fame when he was cooking at a little place on Dominick Street in Tribeca, Alison on Dominick. This was before Tribeca was Hollywood on the Hudson. Now Valenti has two restaurants on the Upper West Side, Ouest and ‘Cesca, where he serves similar dishes. [more]
Monday, November 1, 2004
Oops! Another Appearance
I can’t believe I never told you about my demonstration and book signing at Macy’s Herald Square next Friday, November 12, at 1 p.m. Somehow, it got left out of my appearance schedule. I am trying to remedy that now.) But I’ll be there – preparing Steak Diane and telling stories about the old glamour restaurants – The Stork Club, The Colony – where such dishes were prepared tableside, and making the fabulous pancakes that they used to make in the window of Child’s. It’s my first book event.
