Photo by Ben Fant

“I am very honored,
 because the people who vote for me are also chefs,”
says chef Jose Gutierrez.

By Craig LaBan
Inquirer Restaurant Critic

Olivier Desaintmartin was but a wide-eyed country pup from Picardy when he saw his first gleaming “presse” at La Tour d’Argent in Paris. As a 16-year-old cooking-school grunt doing his weekend turn as a student-server in that luxurious bastion of old-school French gastronomy, it’s easy to see how this diabolical instrument of culinary pleasure would have caught his eye.
Posed tableside, with a silver-plated wheel screwing down like a vise into a canister and crushing everything inside to a bloody pulp, it looks more like a medieval …

Unique experiences await your favorite foodie at Action Against Hunger’s joint online auction with the Financial Times and Maitres Cuisiniers de France
Global humanitarian organization ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | ACF INTERNATIONAL is pleased to announce a joint initiative with the Financial Times: the FT Charity Auction, featuring one-of-a-kind experiences for food and wine aficionados. Featured among them is a unique fine dining Experience: 4 Maîtres Cuisiniers de France come to your home and prepare a meal for 10 guests. Invite us into your kitchen!

Bids begin November 30th and end December 21st; …

  French gastronomy is the subject of two promotions this fall—”Celebrate Fall the French Way” and “French Spice”—which are bringing France’s culinary panache to U.S. palates. “Celebrate Fall the French Way” was active across the country from October 18th through November 7th. Supported by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Fisheries and in partnership with chefs group Maîtres Cuisiniers de France, participating restaurants—including New York’s Madison Bistro and Cercle Rouge, Boston’s Petit Robert Bistro, and California’s Left Bank among many others—offered $35 Chef’s Selections complemented by Rhône Valley and Alsace …