- Michael Gebert
- Rick Bayless
One of you feels like Japanese food, the other feels like Mexican food . . . and for just one day, you can both be happy. That’s this Sunday when Rick Bayless joins chef Fred Despres of Arami and his chef wife Lisa Despres—who just happens to work at Frontera/Topolobampo—for an “East-meets-South of the Border” event showcasing street foods from both countries. There will be tasting stations featuring things like miso ramen with pozole garnishes, mushroom tacos with plum sauce, and a sake tasting, along with a cash bar; the cost is $75 here.
• Are you a home brewer? Check out the Hirter Uberbrew competition at DANK Haus, sponsored by Louis Glunz, distributor of Germany Hirter Bier brand, on Saturday night. Meet the brewers as they compete for a $1,500 scholarship to the Siebel Institute; get more info here.
• How many James Beard Award winners can you squeeze into a kitchen? You can find out Friday, October 17 at the James Beard Foundation Taste America benefit, where you’ll have a four-course meal prepared by Grant Achatz and Sean Brock of Charleston’s Husk, McCrady’s, etc, with lots of other big-name chefs listed on the program. It’s a cocktail-attire event and tickets are going for a cool $400 each; check it out here.
• Remember when bacon, which we all knew about already, suddenly became this craze? People put it on burgers, they put it on cookies, they even named websites for it. Bloomberg Businessweek explains how the bacon craze was engineered to overcome the fact that everybody was and is afraid of pork.
