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Batali the mogul is an emerging figure, but Batali the chef is captured in an incisive, cracklingly funny book scheduled for release May 30. Actually, as you can guess from the title--Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher (Alfred A. Knopf; 325 pages)--the book is mostly about the author, Bill Buford, a former New Yorker editor and freakishly dedicated foodie. Buford went to work as a cook at Babbo, one of seven Batali-Bastianich restaurants in Manhattan. But Batali is the book's most memorable, entertaining...
...Batali is becoming a brand virtually as you read this. This week he will make the rounds of morning talk shows to promote his new role as the official chef of NASCAR and his new cookbook, Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style. And just as he prepares for cooking demos and book signings at six NASCAR races this season, Batali and business partner Joseph Bastianich, 37, have begun construction on two restaurants in Las Vegas and another site in Los Angeles to be called Mozza that will house both a restaurant and a pizzeria. In July, Batali will launch 78 new items...
...began having international days where they were required to have something weird," she recalls. (That may explain her son's fondness for items like duck testicles, an ingredient in one of the dishes at Del Posto, a $12 million Manhattan restaurant he opened in December with Bastianich and PBS chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Joseph's mother...
...driving a point through a fish's brain to kill it instantaneously, minimizing stress to the creature and so optimizing the flavor of its flesh). Staff also advise diners to eat "from the thin end" as the fish is still cooking when it arrives at your table. But chef Greg Doyle's dogmatic insistence on freshness and barely-there cooking pays divine dividends in such dishes as tuna belly with wasabi and sesame seeds, or butter-poached crayfish. Around $110 per head with wine...
...city's north, this is deservedly among Sydney's best destination restaurants. Well-heeled tourists arrive by seaplane to find themselves in a gorgeous beachfront idyll, and gazing open-mouthed at the endless Pacific's whitecaps and whale plumes. A recent renovation and a new chef have met with critical acclaim. As you sit in Jonah's elegant interior, dining on the likes of king prawns in burnt butter or snapper with mussel bouillabaisse, you'll be in a perfect position to understand why. For reservations, call...