Amuse-Bouche Bites Highlight Rick Tramonto Book
Award winning chef Rick Tramonto promotes tiny bites in Amuse-Bouche Little Bites of Delight Before the Meal Begins with recipes from Tru Chicago. The book, co authored with Mary Goodbody, showcases over 100 amuses from simple watermelon cubes to caviar and lobster cappuccino. Tramonto explains amuse as smaller than appetizers and serving as a hospitality gift before dining. He describes his career path from Wendy s in Rochester to Tru opening in 1999, learning on the job and partnering with Gale Gand while noting their breakup. The feature includes a sample Ticotta stuffed Tigatoni with spring vegetables and pesto oil recipe and notes the value of leftovers in amuse dishes.
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Greenspan’s Paris pastry life draws from two worlds
An American baker and author splits her time between New York and Paris, living in a central Paris apartment near Saint-Germain-des-Prés. She visits numerous patisseries daily, savors le gouter, and collects simple desserts from 17 pastry chefs, admiring how Parisian artisans bake by hand in small quantities.
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Ricotta Stuffed Rigatoni with Spring Vegetables and Pesto
Recipe outlines rigatoni with ricotta basil filling, blanched squash and green beans, pesto oil, and serving with tomato garnish. Includes steps for preparing pasta, ricotta filling, and vegetable components, plus a creamy corn grits with butternut squash and sweet corn and pesto oil. Serves 6 to 10.
Watermelon Juice Cubes with Aged Balsamic Drizzle
From Amuse Bouche by Rick Tramonto, the recipe details extracting juice from watermelon using a sieve or juicer, forming cubes, and creating cavities for the juice. Each serving is plated with balsamic drizzle, yields six portions, notes urge high quality aged balsamic and careful juicing.
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New Year's Wine Resolutions and Shelf Etiquette
A reflective piece urges wine consumers to keep shelves orderly, replace touched bottles correctly, and avoid ego battles over wine knowledge. It emphasizes open-minded tasting, humility, and honest returns, citing a restaurant corked bottle incident and urging genuine feedback to retailers.
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