If you like to cook or eat,
we probably should meet!
This is – Restaurant Review: PF Changs – What you don’t know will hurt you. When I look back at over 400 blogs that I have done since 2011, including Restaurant Reviews regularly, there’s only one time I can think of that I mentioned anything negative about a restaurant, because it’s a tough industry and I’m … Read more
Today, July 17, 2016 I received an email from Dima Galkin, who gave me more information about a block I wrote about Von’s Liquor Return Policy in May of 2012. It’s great to see with over 400 blogs now, people are actually going back in time to read and still get some value from what … Read more
I received a request from someone who has many friends that are recent Culinary School Graduates, that no one will hire. Here’s my bit of advice in my Letter to a Culinary Graduate, that I am happy to share with you. Feel free to share this with the struggling chefs or home cooks that you … Read more
How do you start thinking about your Summertime Meals? Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is corn. Not just any corn, but the corn I’ve gotten at Jimbo’s. Organic. Fresh. Sweet. And here’s how the creative juices start flowing…. Why do we have to strip the corn? We don’t do it when … Read more
Today, I am presenting the work I gathered for the Del Mar Fairgrounds Cancer Fighting Foods Class, Part II. If I would give you all my research, this would be a 2,600 word blog. Maybe I should write a book, but for the moment I’m giving you highlights, a ‘starter’ kit you can use to … Read more
My blogs are usually friendly and helpful. But the most recent thing I heard about UTC Mall paying off people that have been mugged there during the construction, that there is even Danger at UTC Mall makes me have to stand up and be counted. I have thought this over for weeks now, because it is … Read more
Today I was thinking about The Goal of The Chef Marian Blog. What have I accomplished since 2011….. and what have I done that has as many as 30,000 eyeballs on me (actually 60,000 to be accurate)! lol Having traveled the world for 3 years, eating in Michelin Star Restaurants, taking Food & Wine Classes … Read more
The Nominations for The James Beard Awards are in. And I have to say about San Diego that I am completely disappointed. San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles all filled categories like Outstanding Restaurant, Outstanding Chef, Best New Restaurant, Outstanding Pastry Chef, and so on. We had ONE RESTAURANT in the entire city of San Diego nominated. For … Read more
Cookbooks & Classes. Those are the two best things to use, to get you further on your path to Happy Cooking, and Happy Eating! And then of course, there’s the Chef Marian Cooking Club and the books that walk you through concepts of cooking! It’s not easy to know how to cook without fear of … Read more
Need to know more About Chef Marian? Chef Marian retired as a success in Business in 1988, as CEO & Founder of many nationwide brands she created and placed on the Cover of Inc. Magazine. She was nominated for Ernest & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award three years in a row. Now it was time to follow … Read more