Celebrity Foods: Chefs' Favorite
We are always impressed by the fabulous array of recipes with which celebrity Chef's so expertly "wow" us. For anyone that loves food or cooking, watching a pro at work is just as much food for the soul as it is for the palate. But no matter how fantastically the combination of gourmet ingredients tantalizes our senses, what impresses us the most are the actual favored food choices of those glorious Chefs. Expertly trained Chefs have the advantage of global influences and exposure to exotic cultural food secrets, so their favorite recipes are obviously spectacular for one reason or another. This is precisely the kind of foods that are prepared conveniently by specialty food companies such as Celebrity Foods.
Take Chef Bobby Flay, for example. He is one of the hottest commodities on the celebrity Chef market, with numerous cookbooks, television shows and prestigious positions under his belt, or under his "apron", shall we say. Chef Flay is the grill chef supreme, yet his favorite grilled foods boast such simplicity, we are dumbfounded. Bobby's choice for the most flavorful barbeque sauce is the homemade tomato-based version with the addition of mustard, molasses and Worcestershire sauce. For a grilled vegetable, the grill chef's selection is corn, because lightly caramelizing it over the flame brings out its best essence. Above all meats, he prefers to grill fish and for dessert his favorite is grilled pineapple brushed with olive oil, served up with really good ice cream.
The influence of well-reputed Chefs is so important that Forbes recently presented an overview of several highly respected masters and their favorite recipes paired with the most suitable beverages. Celebrity Foods is well-versed in the art of creating food masterpieces with fresh, organic ingredients. Here is a glimpse of those Chef superstars' preferred fare:
o Gabriel Kreuther, the Executive chef at The Modern at MoMA, New York prefers seared foie gras with litchis, served with a raspberry-flavored beer.
o Will Goldfarb, Pastry Maestro at Room4Dessert, New York apparently loves everything on his "Voyage to India," dessert tray - a chocolate parfait with chai, mango ice cream, dairyless coconut ice cream, mini India tuiles and spray-dried coconut.
o Mario Batali, Chef/restaurateur at the Del Posto, Esca, Babbo and Casa Mono, all in New York, is nuts about his tres leches cake (butter cake soaked in milk) with coconut gelato.
o Daniel Humm, Executive Chef at Eleven Madison Park, New York goes crazy for the poached lobster and morels in a cream sauce.
o Laurent Tourondel , the Executive Chef of the BLT Restaurant Group (BLT Steak, BLT Fish, BLT Prime), New York simply prefers a thick charred steak.
o Michael Lomonaco , Executive Chef at the Porter House, New York likes to sink his teeth into a 36-ounce, 28-dry aged Porterhouse steak.
o Wylie Dufresne, Executive Chef at WD-50, New York is blown away by the sage tempura and turkey carpaccio with capers.
o Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, Executive Chef at Frasca Food and Wine, Boulder, Colo., will do almost anything for crab dipped in plantain batter, then fried with coconut water straight out of a whole chilled coconut.
o Anne Gingrass , Opening Chef at Postrio, Hawthorne Lane and Essencia, all in San Francisco adores the simplicity of spicy roasted lamb, a menu item which Celebrity Foods prepares with excellence.
o Tony Esnault, Chef, formerly of Ducasse at the Essex House and soon to open a new (as yet unnamed) restaurant, New York loves to cook a roast pork with angel-hair pasta risotto at home for his wife.
In the world of celebrity Chefs, Emeril Lagasse is a rock star. He is the essential "people's" prince of the kitchen, entertaining us with his New York style patter and adept ease at preparing haute cuisine with an artistic flair. Everyone loves Emeril. The world-renowned Chef got his culinary introduction at his Portuguese mother's elbow, helping her add the vegetables to the big soup pot. He inspires us and comforts us with his classical renditions of New Orleans Creole dishes. Celebrity Foods is the best for creating menus that reflect the cultural influences we receive from very early in life. Likewise, our favorite Chef thoroughly enjoys the opportunity to cook some of his dad's favorite dishes: boiled crabs; andouille and cornbread stuffed pork chops; Southern style greens cooked with bacon, onion, a little molasses, and a bottle of beer and homemade chocolate pudding. "Happy. Happy. Happy."