Category — Eat

Our old friends Hideko and Jonathan Colton invited us over for a very memorable dinner recently.

Hideko is a real foodie from Kanagawa (Yokohama) Japan, who has also learned classic French cuisine, in addition to having a strong foundation in Japanese cooking. She also teaches a fun and delicious sushi class that you can read more about here. Hideko also has a blog in Japanese that you can check out here.

Green Tea Panna Cotta

She blends all of these elements together in very creative ways, and finished the meal with an extremely successful fusion of Japanese and Italian dessert-making with her Green Tea Panna Cotta.
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Jamie making Gougères

Jamie and I received many great gifts for our wedding, but one of the most unusual was the gift of cooking instruction. Thoughtfully, (classically-trained chef & bass player in several of my bands) Tony Gregory and the lovely Melinda Zupaniotis generously gave us a gift certificate to classes at the renowned ICE Culinary Institute.
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Jamie and I recently went back to Philadelphia, a city known for it’s deep foodie culture. The difference was that this time, with the help of OpenTable, we arrived in town with an actual reservation. And not just any reservation – considered among the best restaurants in the country, Morimoto is known among television foodie fans as the brainchild of renowned Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto.

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