It’s a movieland moment in America, as the great Oscar countdown gets under way. Dig into Gourmet Live’s Hollywood issue to whet your appetite, and when February 26 rolls around, join us in whipping up our cocktail recipes inspired by two of this year’s Academy Award nominees, Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep.
Gourmet Live’s Tinseltown edition starts off with some serious dish from Paula Froelich, formerly of the New York Post’s Page Six: blind items on stars’ most outrageous dining habits—see if you can guess who’s who.
Next up, Conan writer and comedian Todd Levin contributes a love letter to his latest food obsession: fake meat! Learn the singular circumstances that led a transplanted New Yorker to love this L.A. staple—perhaps the quintessential foodstuff, he ventures, for a town that excels in artifice.
Who knows—maybe someday there’ll be a faux burger dubbed the “Todd” on a Sunset Boulevard menu. After all, Hollywood is a place that loves to name its food after its people, as Geoff Nicholson notes in his tribute to dishes and drinks inspired by celebrities, from the Shirley Temple to the, yes, Charlie Sheen.
The stargazing continues with quietly compelling kitchen vignettes from Perfect Sense director David MacKenzie, actress/author Mariel Hemingway, and other industry players, compiled by Adam Harrison Levy.
If you were to name a dish or drink after yourself, what would it be? Tell all via Twitter or Facebook, drop us a line (gourmetlive@condenast.com), or post a comment on our blog. For more tasty bytes, sign up for our weekly newsletter to get convenient access to our most-read blog posts, editors’ favorite recipes, and exclusive reader offers.
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The editors of Gourmet Live