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15 Wednesday Aug 2012
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10 Friday Aug 2012
Posted Celebrities, Chefs, Desserts, LA, Uncategorized
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Mouthwatering Cake Truffle Art
Godiva has been a name synonymous with delicious chocolate for the past century. So you know that when Godiva pairs up with celebrity baker and food artist Duff Goldman, you are in for a treat. And let me say, what a treat it was. Duff Goldman teamed up with Godiva’s executive chefs to create something truly sensational. A cake flavored truffle collection. I was invited to the preview at the Water Marke tower in Downtown LA.
Duff was more than happy to answer a few of my questions, and over the moon to tell everyone about his new truffle creations. I asked him how he got started on the whole truffle idea, coming from a cake background, truffles were definitely off the beaten path. He told me that he had always been fascinated by how you make chocolate, and began growing his relationship with Godiva by visiting their factory in Pennsylvania and working with their chefs. The idea, truffles that taste, and even feel, like cakes…..emerged over the course a year of working together. Eventually, seven truffles emerged, four of which made the cut into Godiva’s newest collection, I call them the “DeathbedFood Four”.
Birthday Cake with mousse that tastes of cake icing, Cookie-dough with the texture and feel of actual cookie-dough, Butterscotch-Walnut, an earthy, musty, spicy, delicious combination, and Pineapple Hummingbird, what Chef Goldman described as a type of red-velvet, old school, southern flavor, and which had to be my favorite by far.
Over 30 different recipes were tried, and almost 50 sketches of how the truffles were to look were provided by Duff himself. As he so eloquently put it.
They need to taste and look awesome.
Before I left I had time to pose one last question to Duff. On our last encounter I asked him what his Deathbed Food would have to be. His answer was immediate: his mom’s brisket. This time round, I asked Chef Goldman what his Deathbed Dessert would be, and the answer was rather unexpected.
A Bomb Pop,” he answered with a laugh, “If I’m lying on my deathbed I want to feel like I’m six again.
Godiva were more than generous hosts of the premiere, and Duff Goldman was the life and soul of the party. Godiva provided each guest with a gift bag of truffles and information on their chocolates. Got to go now, I think I hear the Ice Cream truck coming by my block. Maybe a “The Bomb Pop” will pair with these Truffles!
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted Celebrities, Chefs, LA, Uncategorized
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Zimmern Says This Week’s “LA Pop Up” Episode Is His All Time Favorite
This episode was born out of a problem. How do you come and do a story about a place that everyone has done stories about? What am I going to do? Taco trucks? Famous restaurants? No. So what I decided to do was do a pop-up. It’s quintessentially L.A., it’s very 2012. LA Weekly
DeathbedFood was there for Andrew Zimmern’s first ever Pop Up in Los Angeles. We didn’t know it was going to be an episode on Bizarre Foods America until we arrived at the Royal T in Culver City (which, alas, is no longer with us). This I’m sure of: Travel Channel knows how to create high quality programming. The show was shot with at least 5 cameras and an obviously super high quality crew with ah-mazing lighting set up. Everything here fired on all cylinders: the concept, the food, the experience, Andrew himself, and the beautiful execution of this episode. Congrats to everyone who worked on this.
If you see the full episode on Travel Channel, you may catch glimpses of me in an orange dress, head down in my iPad as I’m furiously tweeting about each dish. Actually, if you look REALLY hard (at 2:50 and 4:21 ~ my two seconds of fame?), you may find a few shots of me (head down, tweeting) in this Recap video …
During the event, we stepped into the kitchen to shoot this exclusive video clip with Andrew while he was in the middle of the dinner service. We didn’t stay long because we didn’t need to – my video pro nailed it first question:
This love and respect for the LA food scene was a theme for Andrew while he was in town working on this episode.
You have so many fantastic chefs in L.A.,” says Zimmern. “This has become such a great food city,and such a legitimate food town. I eat all over the world in all the best places–whether it’s a jungle market, street food, or restaurants–and I get offended when people put down the food scene in L.A. LAIST
Thanks Andrew for so many things … doing a truly ah-mazing Pop Up here in LA, having a fabulous episode about it on Bizarre Foods, touting LA’s food scene as the innovative, exciting one that it has become, and, perhaps most importantly, for being such an endearingly nice guy – and the only one who I’d let call me “Deathbed”!