Check this press release that just came across the state wire:
FRANKFORT, Ky. (December 2, 2009) – First Lady Jane Beshear today applauded the James Beard Foundation for partnering with the Kentucky Horse Park and the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games for Cookin’ in the Bluegrass: A Celebrity Chef Dinner Series. The series will coincide [...]

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Geof Manthorne, one of the stars of Food Network’s Ace of Cakes, will be at the University of Louisville tomorrow.
He’ll build a Cardinal cake beginning at 7:00 P.M. at the Student Activities Center, Multipurpose Room. According to a press release, Manthorne will also answer questions and meet with students and the public.
The event is [...]

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by John LaFollette
‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent
In Velocity, reviewer Marty Rosen has an interesting take on the city’s restaurant reputation. He gives five reasons — both good and bad — on the ‘Ville’s charms as a restaurant town. Intriguing premise.
It’s hard to take issue with the good reasons — local chef camaraderie, the chef pipeline from [...]

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Acclaimed chef and TV personality Bobby Flay will be a grand marshal at the Derby Festival’s Pegasus Parade. He’ll join local celebrity trumpter Patrick Henry Hughes, who will also play in the University of Louisville band, at the May 1 event.
Flay does have a connection with the Derby — if nothing more than he’s a [...]

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It may be the shortest news item to run in the Courier-Journal in months, and it explains something most folks already knew. Acclaimed chef Anoosh Shariat is planning a new restaurant. Heck, we reported it right here on March 12. But apparently Shariat had a spokeswoman (?) put out this big news, which the C-J [...]

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Bardstown Road Farmers Market opens Saturday: Take heart, locavores, solid proof the long, cold winter is officially over is the sale of spring’s first local produce this weekend at one of the area’s favorite farmers markets. As always, the market will be held in the Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church parking lot (1722 Bardstown Road), and [...]

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Emeril Lagasse has signed on to work with Martha Stewart Living Ominmedia for $45 million in cash and $5 million in stock (anyone thinking, “insider trade”?) Whether he screamed “Bam!” at the contract signing isn’t known, but surely those in the food world who’ve made fun of Lagasse for “selling out to TV” yelled “Damn!” [...]

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Chef Peng Looi, owner of August Moon Bistro and co-owner-executive chef at Asiatique, has received the Jefferson Evans Award, a prestigious honor given minority chefs in America.
Evans was the first African-American graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., in 1947.
“It’s very gratifying … and my biggest (one) because it’s a national [...]

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Call my congrats late but deserved. I just learned this week that, last August, the American Culinary Federation named Winston’s Restaurant at Sullivan University the best teaching restaurant facility in the country last year. Given the competition at bigger-name, better-endowed schools like the Culinary Institute of America and Johnson & Wales University, this is a [...]

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New ownership for Martini Italian Bistro: Following the sale of his Mitchell’s Fish Markets chain, Columbus, Ohio-based restaurateur, Cameron Mitchell, is selling his two Martini Italian Bistro unit, one of which is located at The Summit.According to Business First (subscription required), Mitchell is selling the property to current manager, Jim Davis, for an undisclosed sum. [...]

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If you’ve ever watched Hell’s Kitchen, you know Chef Gordon Ramsey, his tyrannical personality and the unbridled upbrading he routinely gives his staff. He’s a one-man PR nightmare for restaurant employee recruiters. I don’t care if he’s channeling Escoffier, no one like that is worth working for.
Still, some journalists are interested in the volatile Ramsey [...]

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