What a great trip I had in Atlanta last week. I stayed at the wonderful Intercontinental Buckhead Hotel and had a dinner of escargots and mushroom vol-au-vent from their very own Au Pied de Cochon restaurant (will return for the roasted pig trotter!). I also went to a fun Moroccan restaurant (the belly dancer was awesome!) called Imperial Fez and ate a delicious cornish hen pastilla (spiced, pulled meat, enclosed in a delicate phyllo dough, and sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar and powdered cassia bark).

photograph by Adam Waterson

The media event organized and hosted by Chadwick Boyd of Lovely & Delicious was amazing. The Art Institute of Atlanta’s culinary team was phenomenal. Thank you also to KA-ME and Decantus for sponsoring a great event. On the menu celebrating both my cookbooks including The Asian Grill (Chronicle Books, 2006) and Noodles Every Day (Chronicle Books, 2009) were: Asian Mango Salad, Grilled Shrimp Sate, Grilled Beef in Grape Leaf Rolls with Sweet, Sour, and Spicy Fish Sauce Dip (Nuoc Cham), Cold Soba Noodles with Watercress and Shiitake Mushrooms, and Tossed Leafy Greens with Walnut-Miso Dressing, and Tofu Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce. Great food, great talk, great audience!
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