Fab Friday — Cooking In Stilettos Edition

Yes, I’m still hot under the col­lar about the All My Chil­dren can­cel­la­tion last week but, in the spirit of Fab Fri­days – I will sol­dier on.  So, let us get in the mood for a relax­ing week­end with some fab finds includ­ing, of course, some fan­tas­tic shoes!

1.  These Dolce Vita Car­rie Multi-Strap Fringe San­dals almost gave me heart pal­pi­ta­tions – they are unique, chic and just have that *wow* fac­tor.  Plus, the price isn’t so bad either.  I swear – nude shoes have totally out­ranked the num­ber of black shoes in my shoe arsenal.

2.  For you gals that adore all things pink, did you see this Kitchen Aid Arti­san Susan G. Komen Stand Mixer in Rasp­berry Ice?  Now this is a gor­geous mixer that will gar­ner all the right attention!

3.  I am DETERMINED to get my deck gar­den to flour­ish this year and one of my must have pur­chases is a Meyer Lemon Tree.  I’m so annoyed to buy Meyer Lemons at the store to only have them go moldy in a day or two – who knows how long those Meyer Lemons are on the truck to the store, right?  At least if I can cure my black thumb, per­haps I can only go a few paces out the back door to get the per­fect ingre­di­ent to brighten most any dish.

4. I have to con­fess, being a recov­er­ing pub­li­cist has me a bit jaded.  When I hear of a celebrity cook­book, I tend to see right through it.  It’s all about mar­ket­ing and brand­ing nowa­days.  I remem­ber one “celeb” who released a cook­book and on one of their appear­ances, they didn’t even know their own recipes.  C’mon now – if you are going to pro­mote some­thing as your own and swear YOU wrote the book – well then, KNOW the recipes.  I pur­chased a copy of  Eva’s Kitchen: Cook­ing with Love for Fam­ily and Friends Fab Friday   Cooking In Stilettos Edition and I have to say, out of the flood of celeb cook­books on the mar­ket, Eva Longoria’s cook­book seemed to be the most authen­tic.  She has some fab sim­ple recipes in there along with some from her fam­ily and it’s a cook­book I will be using this spring & sum­mer.  Well done!

5.  Finally – have you heard about the Philadel­phia Sci­ence Fes­ti­val?  Now, before you whap me upside the head ala NCIS Gibbs’ style, hear me out.  It’s got some seri­ously fas­ci­nat­ing events at this fes­ti­val that are geared to the curi­ous foodie.  I mean, we’re talk­ing about events cen­tered around healthy eat­ing, the sci­ence of beer and cheese, and a host of other fas­ci­nat­ing events.  Check out their cal­en­dar – it looks intriguing!

I’m curi­ous – what are you guys obsessed with this week?  Tell me in the comments!

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Stonyfield Organic Family Love Fest Tour To Hit Philly

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stonyfield love fest 150x150 Stonyfield Organic Family Love Fest Tour To Hit PhillyAre you as obsessed with all things Stony­field as I am? If you visit my house, you will see that my fridge is stocked. SL got me hooked on Organic Milk when I lived in Alta­monte and I tend to stick with brands I adore. Con­fes­sion – Stony­field was the very first brand of organic milk that I pur­chased and they hooked me from the get go. So, if I see Stony­field on my weekly gro­cery run, well you know what’s going in my cart, right?

Well, this Sat­ur­day, April 16th from 7 a.m. to noon, the Stony­field Organic Fam­ily Love Fest Tour will be in Philly at the Clean Air Council’s 5K Run for Clean Air and Earth Day Cel­e­bra­tion on Mar­tin Luther King Drive. And, get this – it’s FREE!

Accord­ing to Stony­field, an Organic Fam­ily Love Fest is:

Inter­ac­tive, out­door fun that’s all about healthy food, healthy peo­ple and a healthy planet. Eat lots of YoB­aby, YoKids, Oikos and Stony­field organic yogurt. Gar­den at our organic seed-planting table. Watch a local chef pre­pare sim­ple and deli­cious dishes fea­tur­ing Greek yogurt. Inter­act with Gurt—our exhibit cow that teaches kids about the organic life­cy­cle and makes them laugh. Learn about organic farm­ing and nutri­tion. Make a mini motion pic­ture flip­book fea­tur­ing you and your fam­ily as the stars. Enter to win a fam­ily get­away to a Ver­mont organic farm. And more!

So, for a fun, free event that is good for the whole fam­ily, head down to MLK Drive this Sat­ur­day and visit with the folks from Stony­field Farm.

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Nigella Lawson To Visit Philadelphia, New York and More

What a year it has been for book-signings in the Philadel­phia area – Giada de Lau­ren­tiis, Daisy Mar­tinez, Tyler Flo­rence, Bobby Flay, Bare­foot Con­tessa and NOW one of my absolute favorites – Nigella Law­son.

I never really told you the story of how I started to under­stand that I really could cook, did I.  The long and the short of it is that I can credit Nigella as one of my first culi­nary inspi­ra­tions along side of Colin Cowie.  When I lived in New Hamp­shire, I can dis­tinctly recall watch­ing her show when they aired episodes on the Style Net­work.  It was her recipe for “mushy peas” and her coca-cola ham that imme­di­ately had me track­ing down my own copy of her cook­book.  Bec or Meowmix would tell you that I really didn’t attempt to cook from it but was more than happy to leaf through the pages like it was that month’s Vogue.  How­ever, when I found my pas­sion for cook­ing after my Bampa’s pass­ing while liv­ing in Orlando, I’m happy to say that Nigella was one of my first “TV Teachers.”

Basi­cally, to have an oppor­tu­nity to meet her and say “Thank you!!!” well, you can only imag­ine how fab that is.  Plus, it’s only a few days after my b’day (39, thank you­very­much – NOT 40!) and Hype­r­ion, Nigella & Williams Sonoma – thank you in advance for such an amaz­ing b’day experience.

Nigella will be sign­ing copies of her book, Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home Nigella Lawson To Visit Philadelphia, New York and More and, while I’m not sure of the rules and reg­u­la­tions, I’m sure it will be amazing!

So – with­out fur­ther ado – here is her book tour details direct from her pub­lisher Hype­r­ion and, of course, Philly peeps – WHO IS GOING?!?!?

NEW YORK CITY

Mon­day, Novem­ber 1, 7:00 p.m. Signing.

BOOKENDS
211 East Ridge­wood Avenue
Ridge­wood, NJ 07450
201–445-0726

Tues­day, Novem­ber 2, 7:30 p.m. Signing.

BARNES & NOBLE-Market Fair Mall
3535 US Route 1 South
Prince­ton, NJ 08540
609–897-9250

DALLAS

Thurs­day, Novem­ber 4, 10:00 a.m. Signing.

Chi Omega Christ­mas Mar­ket First Call
Dal­las Con­ven­tion Cen­ter,
650 S. Grif­fin Street

Reser­va­tions: www.chiomegaxmas.org

ST. LOUIS

Fri­day, Novem­ber 5, 5:00 p.m. Signing.

WILLIAMS-SONOMA-Frontenac Plaza
260 Plaza Fron­tenac
St. Louis, MO 63131
314–567-9211

PHILADELPHIA

Mon­day, Novem­ber 8, 1:00 p.m. Signing.

WILLIAMS-SONOMA-King of Prus­sia Mall
160 North Gulph Road
King of Prus­sia, PA 19406;
610–337-3135

Mon­day, Novem­ber 8, 6:00 p.m. Signing.

BORDERS
1 S. Broad
Philadel­phia, PA 19107
215–568-7400

CHICAGO

Tues­day, Novem­ber 9, 7:00 p.m. Signing.

BORDERS
1500 16th Street
Oak­brook, IL 60523
630–574-0800

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 10, 12:00 p.m. Lun­cheon, Q&A, Signing.

THE STANDARD CLUB
320 South Ply­mouth Court
Chicago, IL 60604
312–427-9100 ext. 5198

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 10, 7:00 p.m. Signing.

THE BOOK STALL AT CHESTNUT COURT
811 Elm Street
Win­netka, IL 60093
847–446-8880

MILWAUKEE

Thurs­day, Novem­ber 11, 11:30 a.m. Lun­cheon, Q&A, Signing.

NEXT CHAPTER BOOKSHOP at Shully’s
146 Green Bay Road
Thiensville, WI 53092
262–242-6633
Reser­va­tions: 262–241-6220 and nextchapterbookshop.com

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Tickets Are Still Available To See Bobby Flay In Philly

I got word that tick­ets are still avail­able for Bobby’s Flay’s book sign­ing tomor­row, Oct. 13, 2010 in Philadel­phia.  So, why not drop by the King of Prus­sia mall tomor­row and get a head start on your hol­i­day shop­ping.  See you there!

Just a reminder, the details for tomorrow’s Philadel­phia appear­ance are below.

10/13/2010 1:00pm
WILLIAMS-SONOMA
King of Prus­sia
160 North Gulph Rd
King Of Prus­sia, PA 19406
(610) 265‑5970

10/13/2010 6:00pm
WILLIAMS-SONOMA
The Belle­vue
200 South Broad Street #M6
Philadel­phia, PA 19102
(215) 545‑7392 

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Bobby Flay To Visit Philadelphia

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BF Throwdown 150x150 Bobby Flay To Visit PhiladelphiaThe hol­i­days are fast approach­ing and, with that, are the celebrity chefs that will be on tour pro­mot­ing their new cook­books. I heard from a lit­tle bird that Food Network’s Bobby Flay will be vis­it­ing the Philadel­phia area for a book sign­ing of his new cook­book, Bobby Flay’s Throw­down!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network’s Ulti­mate Cook­ing Chal­lenge Bobby Flay To Visit Philadelphia.

On Bobby’s tour sched­ule: two Williams-Sonoma loca­tions – King of Prus­sia and  The Belle­vue in Cen­ter City.   I was told that this will be a tick­eted event and tick­ets go on sale on Tues­day, Octo­ber 5, 2010. Now, if you have ever been to these events, they do sell out quickly so you need to make sure you get your ticket early. I learned my les­son last year for an event with Martha Stew­art. 350 peo­ple alone showed up for that one – don’t even get me started when Thomas Keller vis­ited King of Prussia.

The event at King of Prus­sia starts at 1:00 p.m. and Cen­ter City’s Williams-Sonoma will start their sign­ing with Bobby at 6:00 p.m. If you are going, let us know in the comments!

Here’s the full tour sched­ule from his pub­lisher at Ran­dom House.

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Sunny Anderson Visits Philadelphia

Last night I noticed that one of my fave peo­ple, Sunny Ander­son, was going to be in Philly for a hot minute talk­ing about her upcom­ing appear­ance at the Atlantic City Food & Wine Fes­ti­val (huz­zah! AC goes Foodie!)  Now, if you have never gone to one of these events, you really should – great peo­ple, great chefs and seri­ously to. die. for. food & wine.  LOVE these events. 
Ear­lier today, Sunny dropped by Philly’s The 10! Show and demo’d her Flank Steak with Drunken Pep­perswhich looks to be a fab­u­lous sum­mer dish.  C’mon, drunken pep­pers – you know you want to try that!
 
The recipe is for her killer Flank Steak Faji­tas is here and if you do try it, let us know, will ya?  Sunny – glad you were in Philly – even if it was for a very short visit! 
 
 

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Giada de Laurentiis Book Tour Update

Sad news – the Giada de Lau­ren­tiis King of Prus­sia event is cur­rently sold out, but I’ve got it on good author­ity that the event that starts at 5:00 at the Williams Sonoma located in the Belle­vue in Cen­ter City has a few tick­ets left. Call them at 215.545.7392 to reserve yours.

Here is the cur­rent book tour sched­ule that was recently released. Make sure to call the store and ver­ify that the event is still on and to reserve your ticket. If she heads to a loca­tion near you, be sure to tell us all about it!

March 30:
William Sonoma : 1200 Mor­ris Turn­pike, Short Hills, NJ 07078 : 973.467.3641
Costco : 325 Prom­e­nade Blvd, Bridge­wa­ter, NJ 08807 : 732.584.1001

March 31:
Bor­ders West­bury : 1260 Old Coun­try Road, West­bury, NY 11590 : 516.683.8700
Stew Leonard’s : 100 West­port Ave, Nor­walk, CT 06851 : 203.847.7214

April 1:
William Sonoma : 160 N. Gulph Road, King of Prus­sia, PA 19406 : 610.265.5970
William Sonoma : The Belle­vue, 200 S. Broad St #M6, Philadel­phia, PA 19102 : 215.545.7392

April 2 :
BJ’s : 100 Cor­po­rate Drive, Franklin, MA 02038 : 508.553.9889

April 3:
Sur La Table : 1101 S. Joyce St, Ste B-20, Arling­ton, VA 22202 : 703.414.3580

April 5:
William Sonoma : 1001 S Ram­part Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89145 : 702.938.9480
Sur La Table : 3663 S Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89145 : 702.732.2706

April 6:
William Sonoma : 12850 Memo­r­ial Drive Ste 420, Hous­ton, TX 77024 : 713.827.8056
Sur La Table : 1996 West Gray, Hous­ton, TX 77019 : 713.533.0400

April 7 :
Sur La Table : 5809 Pre­ston Rd, Ste 580, Plano Tx, 75093 : 972.378.5532
William Sonoma : 327 North­park Cen­ter, Dal­las, TX 75225 : 214.378.6216

April 8 :
William Sonoma : 2398 E Sun­rise Blvd, Ft. Laud­erdale, FL 33304 : 954.565.3717
Sur La Table : 301 SW 145th Ter­race, Pem­broke Pines, FL, 33027 : 954.266.3510

April 9 :
William Sonoma : 3500 Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA 30326 : 404.812.1703
Sur La Table : 4400 Ashford0 Dun­woody Rd, Atlanta, GA 30346 : 678.441.9120

April 10:
McIntyre’s : 220 Mar­ket Street, Pitts­boro, NC 27312 : 919.545.5700

April 11:
Barnes and Noble : 760 SE May­nard, Cary NC 27511 : 919.467.3866

April 12:
Unity Tem­ple on the Plaza : 707 W. 47th Street, Kansas City, MO 64112 : 913.384. 7605

April 13:
Crate & Bar­rel : 35 Oak­brook Cen­ter, Oak Brook, IL 60523 : 847.239.6085

April 14:
William Sonoma : 340 Post Street, San Fran­cisco, CA 94108 : 415.362.9450

April 23:
Costco : 1801 10th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA 98027 : 425.313.0965

April 29:
William Sonoma : 3333 South Bris­tol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 : 714–751-1166

April 30:
William Sonoma : 1600 Mon­tana Avenue , Santa Mon­ica, CA 90403 : 310–586-1018

May 7:
William Sonoma : 3835 State Street, Santa Bar­bara, CA 93105 : 805–569-6912

May 8:
San Diego : Loca­tion TBD

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