Did you know award-winning celebrity Chef Matt Abdoo started to develop his culinary skills and realized cooking was his calling while working at Cafe CaNole?
I first saw Chef Matt Abdoo on the Today Show and I really like his easy-to-follow and make recipes. He recently inspired me to try to make grilled caesar salad. Who knew you could grill roman lettuce? He did, and now I do.
Cindy McMullen
Yes, Matt Abdoo was raised in New Hartford and said he started his culinary training at a very young with his Italian and Lebanese family.
“Food was always a part of my life.My mother and grandmothers were always feeding me, and having me try new things.” [Matt Addoo]
Six of Ireland’s best-known chefs traveled to the United States this St. Patrick’s Day season to showcase New Irish Cuisine, an innovative style of Irish cooking which is making Ireland a fashionable hotspot in culinary circles.
The Irish delegation, representing Ireland’s four provinces, included Kevin Dundon, Dunbrody House hotel and Cookery School in Wexford; Darina Alien, Ballymaloe House and Cookery School in Cork: Richard Hart. Glenlo Abbey hotel, Galway; David McCann, Dromoland Castle, County Clare; Neven Maguire, MacNean’s Bistro. County Cavan: and Noel McMeel of Castle Leslie in County Monaghan.
The culinary tour in Boston and New York City was developed by Tourism Ireland and the Boston Irish Tourism Association as a way to promote travel to Ireland while introducing a sophisticated slant on celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in America. Other sponsors included American Airlines and Tourism Massachusetts.
Despite being a darling of the Boston food scene, this Chinatown staple and the late-night spectacle it once offered has been muzzled by a 9:30 p.m. curfew and the punishing, protracted pandemic.