A Reign of Kings: Nicholas Sabatini
In 1897, when an Australian opera singer became ill, Auguste Escoffier, her chef and fan, created a dry thin toast to settle her stomach. Her name was Dame Nellie Melba. The culinary landscape is a buffet of recipes with such stories behind their names: Beef Stroganoff, Beef Wellington, Lobster Newberg, Bananas Foster, and the Arnold Palmer to name a few.
Ben & Liza Groshell
Ben and Liza Groshell are a dynamo dining team who are veritable local celebrities due to their growing number of go-to restaurants. They became restauranteurs in 1992 with the opening of Marker 32, the highly-rated seafood destination on the intracoastal waterway. Then they began working on a steakhouse concept, but the 2008 economic recession had them rethinking creatively. Ben Groshell saw that at a time when fine dining was suffering, simple comfort food was still thriving. So the couple decided to switch gears and bring to life a concept they had planned for later in their careers – a fish camp.
8,000 Pounds of Snapper
“We figured we needed to catch 8,000 pounds of Red Snapper to break even.” The painter waves his tan sailor arms, righting his glass of Scotch mid gesture. Not a drop breaches the rim. The painter sits in his studio with a half-killed fifth of Macallan 12 Year. Paintings from a recent trip to Cuba circle his feet.
The Conversation: Matt Colaciello Williams
Matthew Colaciello was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1986. He grew up in a culturally rich, artistic household of modest means. His mother taught acting and performed, and his father was a music teacher and musician. They moved to Florida when Matthew was seven. Some of his favorite childhood memories involve the tradition his parents created by opening their home every few months to host a house concert. New and exciting musicians, poets, and visual artists were invited to perform and display works to audiences of fifty to sixty people.
Anne Frank — A History for Today
Anne Frank ~ we know the name. After all, more than thirty million copies of her famous diary have sold in seventy languages around the world. Movies, television productions and plays based on her diary have continued to spread Anne Frank’s story, but what do we know of the legacy of this document and its message and relevance to our lives today?
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