Gale Gand and Rick Tramonto's Blog Archives
April 2007
Inspired by Italy in Chicago
Posted: 03:22 PM ET, April 30, 2007
Rick: Once I returned to Chicago from my trip to Italy, I was totally pumped, stoked, fed and watered and ready to go. I gathered all my chefs and managers and showed them my 5,000 photos—I'm known as quite an avid photo-chronicler of my travels. Read more
Give Me Bubbles
Posted: 04:39 PM ET, April 25, 2007
Gale: It's no secret that I love bubbles. I think many of you know that about me. Bubbles from France, from Italy, from Spain, New Zealand, California, pink bubbles, red bubbles, and from any size bottle…even bubble baths. If it's bubbly, I love it. Read more
Cooking at the Masters
Posted: 11:21 AM ET, April 19, 2007
Rick: This past February, I had the opportunity, for the third time, to cook at the Masters of Food and Wine event in Carmel, Calif. One of the highlights for me was tasting a vertical of the legendary Romano Dal Forno Amarones, from Valpolicella, in the Veneto region. Read more
A Sweet Pairing in the Great Smoky Mountains
Posted: 03:19 PM ET, April 12, 2007
Gale: Last month, I cooked and taught a cooking class at the Wine Spectator Grand Award–winning Blackberry Farm in Tennessee. I did a wine pairing dinner with German wine distributor Rudi Wiest and it was, well, memorable. Read more
My Ongoing Wine Education
Posted: 03:13 PM ET, April 04, 2007
Rick: In my Italian-American, blue-collar New York family, Italian wines were always very approachable, even humble. We couldn’t afford French, German or Spanish wines. For us, wine was part of the general celebration of Sunday, made by our grandfather in his basement. Read more
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