Food for the Holidays
From Michael, Show Host
Listeners to FOOD For The HOLIDAYS, our special broadcast for food lovers will delight in hearing our Podcast of Dec.24, Dec.26, etc., etc. Guests included Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Dean, Confuscius Institute/ China Institute, New York,who informed us that China celebrates the holidays with eight different types of cuisine including
herbal, medicinal and vegetarian.
Paolo Vannini, Managing Director of
ALTA CUCINA, a membership org. talked about his favorite Italian dishes and the food customs in Italy from both the north and south of his country as did Anna Teresa Callan who
hails from the region of Abruzzo. She’s a founding member of the JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION. Anna Teresa made reference to her
encounters with Jamesa Beard in his
early days in New York. Alain Sailhac, Executive Vice President of The
FRENCH CULINARY INSTITUTE spoke about the traditions in France and his
native dishes now prepared in the U.S. that are easy to assemble he added. A Buche de Noel was his gift to us/ presented on the show. You can not get better than that. Finally, Morten Sohlberg, President & CEO of the SMORGAS CHEF RESTAURANT GROUP gave us a insider’s view of some of the most popular Scandinavian dishes that his three restaurants in New York are offering this holiday season. The Scandinavian House is one of them. For more info on the show and the dishes they favor this season go to our Podcast page or http://bit.ly/9aXFb
