Results tagged: Twitter

On Monday night we had the privilege of helping the James Beard Foundation's editorial team with their live blog of this years awards. We were joined by Jennifer Leuzzi of snack blog, writer Adam Sachs, Meredith Arthur from Chow, Jody Williams of Gottino and Louise McCready of Savory Cities & Huffington Post.

This years live blog coverage chronicled the night from the first arrivals on the red carpet to the best moments on stage to the last bite of octopus carpacio at the gala afterwards. For all the juicy bits check out the James Beard Foundation blog. The JBF also kept a close eye on all of the awards-related Twittering going on and retweeted the best ones. Relive the minute by minute action on @beardfoundation.

Much like at last year's awards we shot video of Jennifer Leuzzi interviewing the bold faced names as they arrived on the red carpet. Find out how award-winning celebrity chefs start their day in the video below and then watch the full set of videos over on the JBF blog.

We'd heard recently that Paul Kahan, chef and co-owner of The Publican in Chicago, was planning to introduce brunch at his wildly popular beer- and pork-themed restaurant. It turns out that this past Sunday was the first day of service and Kahan and his publicist, Ellen Malloy, used the opportunity to send out real-time updates via Twitter (view the full transcript). While it didn't quite live up to its "Reality Twitter Cooking Show" billing, it was an interesting experiment and preview of what we expect to see from other high profile chefs in the future.

Prior to Sunday's Twitter event writer Brittany Bellgardt spoke with Kahan and asked him about The Publican and where he's finding inspiration these days.

What menu item or items best represent the type of cooking you're doing at the restaurant?
Pork, oysters and beer...so pretty much anything on the menu!

What should people know about your wine and cocktail program?
It is all about beer, and we serve any beers that are good.

What's your favorite ingredient to cook with?
This week, quince, because it's quince season and it's tasty. There is so little around that is interesting to cook with this time of year. Quince adds a splash of joy.

If you could collaborate with any chef, alive or dead, who would it be?
Michel Bras because he is so in tune with the product of the ecosystem in which he lives and he is a genius.

What food-related book or cookbook would you recommend to the adventurous home cook?
Right now, I'm really in love with the Moro cookbooks. They seem to really be in tune with what we do at The Publican and I'm very inspired by them.

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The Publican

Location: 837 West Fulton Market between North Peoria and North Green Streets in the West Loop
Hours: Mon-Thu, 3:30-10:30pm; Fri-Sat, 3:30-11:30pm; Sun, 10am-2pm and 5-10pm
Reservations: Call 312-733-9555 or try OpenTable.

Get more information about The Publican on Savory Cities.

A little while back we posted an abridged list of NYC food blogs, publications and writers who were going whole hog on Twitter. Since then the microblogging phenom has been graced by a new wave of influential media types as well as a growing list of high profile chefs. Here are a few of the more prolific to date.

Grant Achatz - The award-winning chef and owner of Alinea in Chicago. A recent tweet alluded to a new Chicago side project.
Chris Cosentino - Everyone's favorite "offal guy" and chef/owner of Incanto and Boccalone in SF.
Daniel Patterson - The author of Aroma and celebrated chef at Coi in SF.
Norman Van Aken - The godfather of "New World Cuisine" and the chef and owner of Norman's in South Florida.
Rick Tramonto - The chef and owner of fine dining Mecca, Tru, in Chicago. Unlimited Ideas. Unlimited Creativity. Unlimited Boundaries. Unlimited Twittering.
Rocco Dispirito - The former high flying chef of Union Pacific and more recently Dancing with the Stars.
Ivy Stark - Executive chef at Dos Caminos in NYC. Follow for a behind the scenes peek at "The Dos."

A few others show early promise, including King Phojanakong of Kuma Inn, Jody Williams of Gottino and molecular gastronomist extraordinaire Homaru Cantu of Moto.

Did we leave anyone out? Let us know in the comments.

We admit to spending a bit more time using Twitter than we probably should. After a skeptical start we quickly warmed up to its charms, or rather, the charms of friends and other people, web sites and companies that use the increasingly popular "microblogging" service to share news, random thoughts, interesting links and other various bits of information.

If you're addicted to all things food and restaurant-related in NYC and are curious about this whole Twitter craze, here's a short list of active NYC food-obsessed Twitter users to help get you started.

Eater - A collection of tweets from the Eater staff and other random followers. Random tweet: "@Lock Momofuku milk barwire: chang holding court, volcanos for all!"
NYTimes Dining - Real-time links to all things food-related on the NY Times web site.
seriouseats - Updates and random linkage from the crew at Serious Eats. Sample tweet: "Ed arrives in office with Chinese turkey... done up PEKING-DUCK STILO. From Roasted Delights in Chinatown. Comes with Chinese gravy"
amandahesser - The former NY Times Magazine food editor and found of Twitter tracking & rating service plodt.
Slice - All things pizza boiled down to 140 characters or less. Sample tweet: "Nick Kokonas (Grant Achatz's business parter at Alinea) in Serious Eats office now. His favorite pizza in CHI: Pinocchio's. "
shakeshack - Line wait times and various random Shack chatter.
amateurgourmet - Random musings from he of "Only A Jerk Would Eat At Le Cirque" fame. 

BravoTopChef - Top Chef season 4 BFFs Spike and Andrew's running commentary on Top Chef NYC. 
TheFeedbag - For those who care to track what Mr. Cutlets had for lunch and who he's getting chummy with.  
savorycities - Last, but we hope not least, follow Savory Cities to get updates on new restaurant videos, restaurant openings and links to food-related articles and web sites.