The Chef Has Left the Building!

Well, after a few years using blogspot.com for my blog and podcast, I've finally gotten around to more fully integrating everything into my www.remarkablepalate.com site.

So now you can find everything "Chef Mark" in one place, from my personal chef service, to the blog and podcast. The new site even has the video player for each video right there in the post.

I'm sure you'll like it. If you have links to this blog, please update them to read

http://www.remarkablepalate.com/blog

The feed for the blog and podcast hasn't changed, though. It's at

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReMARKablePalate

Thanks!

RPV34: Modern Dwellers Chocolates, Part 2

ReMARKable Palate Video #34: Modern Dwellers Chocolates, Part 2

Chef Mark continues his chat with Martha Brigham of Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge in Anchorage Alaska. We learn about some of the unusual (and some may say, crazy!) flavor combinations of their chocolate truffles!


Music: "Go Fish" by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network. music.podshow.com

The ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com



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RP134: 19th Annual US Pastry Competition

ReMARKable Palate #134: 19th Annual US Pastry Competition

Chef Monica Glass, the "Pastry Princess" joins me to discuss the 19th Annual US Pastry Championship, which brings together some of the top pastry chefs in the country to create sumptuous cakes, luscious bon bons, and inventive sugar and chocolate sculptures, this year with the theme "Under the Sea".

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com



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RPV33: Modern Dwellers Chocolates Part 1

ReMARKable Palate Video #33: Modern Dwellers Chocolates, Part 1

Chef Mark chats with Martha Brigham of Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge in Anchorage Alaska. We talk about the inspiration for the shop, and taste some of the traditional Mayan drinking chocolate. On the next show, we taste chocolate truffles!


Music: "Go Fish" by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network. music.podshow.com

The ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com



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RP133: Kirsten Dixon of WinterLake Lodge

ReMARKable Palate #133: Kirsten Dixon of WinterLake Lodge

This week, I speak with Kirsten Dixon, chef and co-owner of the WinterLake Lodge in the Alaska Wilderness, where I had the pleasure of spending a week last month. Despite the remote location, Kirsten and her husband Carl provide a calming, welcoming atmosphere, and create some amazing meals for their guests, including the chunkiest, tastiest cookies I’ve had in a long time! Kirsten’s recipes can be found in 2 cookbooks, with a third on the way. We hear about her unique story and vision of hospitality on today’s show.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com



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RPV32: Alaska Teaser

ReMARKable Palate Video #32: Alaska Teaser

A short teaser of what's to come soon from Chef Mark's journey to the WinterLake Lodge, deep in the frozen wilds of Alaska, and the culinary delights he discovered there.

Music: "Go Fish" by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network. music.podshow.com

The ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com



food, food podcast, ReMARKable Palate, Culinary Media Network, Gilded Fork, Chef Mark, Alaska,Gilded Fork

Dinner Fictional?

If you're going to fake some stuff on your resume, at least pick something that isn't so easily verified! Lie about cooking for the Jones's down the street, not the most famous woman on the planet!

NEW YORK — After rising to culinary stardom preparing impossible meals on his Food Network series, Robert Irvine has met an obstacle his kitchen prowess couldn't overcome _ an embellished resume.

The star of "Dinner: Impossible" has acknowledged fabricating some of the more fantastic parts of his resume, including having cooked for Britain's Royal Family and various U.S. presidents.

Following the revelations, the network announced it would not renew Irvine's contract, though it would air the remaining episodes of the current season, the series' fourth.

"I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family," Irvine said in a written statement. "I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts."

The Food Network said it might revisit its decision at the end of this season, but for now would begin searching for a new host for the series, which challenged Irvine to cook under arduous conditions.

"We rely on the trust that our viewers have in the accuracy of the information we present, and Robert challenged that trust," the network said in a written release.

Irvine, who is from England, first acknowledged the fabrications in a Feb. 17 story in the St. Petersburg Times.