Ask anyone which I LOVE LUCY episode is their favorite and invariably they will say the candy factory one with its conveyor belt of chocolates that goes just a bit too fast for Lucy and Ethel. Sure the episode where the side of beef wound up in the furnace is great. As is that moment […]
One of our incentive perks for bigger donors was to challenge the Le Bon Chef team to create a recipe using the ingredient of their choice. Our first big donor requested something with corn smut. We posted on that previously. Our next generous donor, Precise Construction of Dallas, TX, requested a recipe with saffron and […]
Could there be a better subject for cinematography than nature? From the minutest amoebic pseudopodia to the vastness of the galactic night, nothing is more photogenic than unmanufactured nature. National Geo, PBS Nature, David Attenborough, these are the purveyors of such fare these days. Heroes. They take us to places that 99% of us will […]
This may be the most optimistic New Year’s celebration ever. Covid will soon be behind us. We will be happy again. Most of us have made it through. Personally, I’m just glad to have made it through the holiday cooking season. With restaurants closed in PA, we had to fend for ourselves. What a mess […]
I don’t go in for podcasts too much, but I recently found one to subscribe to: Emily Higgins’ TASTELESS. Each episode is around 30 minutes. I can catch a couple during my anti-nap at one in the morning, after which I blissfully nod off to finish off the restless night, content in the knowledge all […]
The Le Bon Chef crowdfunding campaign is over. The incentives are now due. We have a lot of gifts for our precious donors. The Le Vin level of Le Bon Chef donorship comes with a personalized recipe developed by us using an ingredient of the donor’s choice. Our first donor has weighed in and it’s […]
Now that our crowdfunding campaign is over, it’s time for the next step: finding our cast. Below is a prayer to the goddesses of casting. —Sue Lange/producer, Le Bon Chef It’s time to cast our lead VivienneWe hope to find a star and thenFunding for the film will quickly grow.We need that money, so let’s […]
What is the single most important element in some of our favorite dishes such as quiche, soufflés, hollandaise, mayonnaise, meringues, cakes, mousse, custards. – MAIS OUI! the humble egg! In the words of Michael Ruhlman (well-known food writer and chef) “Eggs are a perfect food- an ingredient, tool and object, a natural construction of near […]
If I told you I’d watched a film starring Michael Keaton as a man trying to validate his life through a play on Broadway, while his estranged wife, mistress, daughter, and lead actor attack him from all sides, and includes a caustic theater critic threatening to take him down, you’d assume I’d just seen Birdman, […]
