Chef Colicchio won the Best New Chef award while he was at: Mondrian, in New York City. The restaurant is now closed and previous to that he was at the incredible Quilted Giraffe at the AT&T Building, Gotham Bar and Grill, 40 Main Street (Millburn, New Jersey). Many of his delights can be found over at FoodandWine. This is my favorite his Short Ribs. Click on this link and a video will take you through the recipe. Colicchio was born on August 15, 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He got married on September 14, 2000, place unknown though I imagine NYC.…
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Edward Colie Caswell is #182 on the Jones 1000. I could not find much about him except in this article from “The Villager” online. “It was an ant with a crumb twice its size in its jaws slowly making its way over the twigs. It occurred to me that if I were that little ant, the shrubbery would look like a great forest, and so with my face close to the ground, I tried to view the scene as my minute energetic acquaintance was observing it. In a moment the twigs became great fallen trunks, the dried spruce shrubs turned…
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Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York the same year as fellow artist, Edward Hopper. The Tappan Zee Bridge now separates the two counties, back then it was a ferry service. Their art, unsurprisingly, is quite similar, desolate landscapes with few people and the two took similar methods, if only by their opposite, is obscuring their life: Kent moved all the up to Plattsburgh, at the end of the Adirondack Mountains & five miles from the Canadian border, while Hopper went into the heart of Manhattan and was lost in the crowd. Multi-faceted Kent There is…
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Aubrey Beardsley was an Art Nouveau artist. This essay speculates whether his death came during a creative impasse.



