Potential Gold

Cholesterol & TV

With all this extra time I find being unemployed my brother enjoys watching me watch TV.  I don't like watching the tube often - or even at all - but when it is on, it is very addictive.

I was just now watching the GSN chanel, a channel dedicated to game shows - only in America - and the commercial periods for this channel all focus on cholesterol for some reason.

I didn't know the US marketing execs. think this is such a marketable segment but one of the commercials was for a new vitamin I think called CholestOff - and then the commercial to follow was another cholesterol fighting vitamin from One a Day - or something like that.

It is just cholesterol people - it won't kill you!!!

Maybe I should get into the cholesterol field...oh, wait...I will serve Foie Gras wherever I cook - so I already am in the Cholesterol field!

Cheers!

Bringin' It Back

Somehow...when I came back to L.A. - my will to write had fallen.  I vowed to change that and here I am, back with a new addition to PotentialGold.com.

Back in L.A. will be the new home for my pages that have to do with my time here, back home in Tarzana.

As of now, I am unemployed, but that will change soon.  Some meetings this week will show me more of what L.A. has to offer.

Eating out more often will also help me figure this city out, culinarily speaking.

Thanks for all the support!

Ore

La Locanda di Bu

Ciao Tutti,


I started my blog a couple of months ago, and just jumped into it while still working long hours near Parma.  There are a lot of things I barely touched upon while I was in Italy and now that I am back in Los Angeles, I am glad that I now have the chance to throw up all the updates.


I am going to take this post back to my time at La Locanda di Bu in Nusco.  I was at La Locanda for four amazing months and had some very memorable times there, learning amazing things about food and the way of life in the South.


Some of these photos may cross over with my posts on eG - but this is now their new home!






Above, the Cavatelli in Nusco, better known as Ceccaluccoli, is the dish most memorable to me from those times.  I can't wait to try my hand at it here in LALA.


Before even getting to Nusco, the director of Ital.Cook., Mancini, suggested La Locanda over Le Calandre, stating some important differences, the largest being that in Nusco I may actually have a role in the kitchen, whereas in a three star restaurant there isn't much of a chance in cooking anything.

I'm Home!!

Ciao Tutti!

The day before yesterday I arrived home, back in Los Angeles and now ready to take on the 'scene' here.

In the next few weeks I will be catching up with stories from my travels as well as finishing some projects I have wanted to put up on the web since Italy, but was unable to due to internet difficulties.

That sore throat is not doing any better though.  I went to see the MD and I am on some antibiotics BUT it doesn't seem to be getting anywhere..I don't think the LA air is helping!

Ore

London

Now in London...


Actually, I am having a great time here.  The weather is amazing (HOT) and I met up with two old friends, Tom and Keith.  Keith is in a Managerial Training program for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel here in London and Tom is going on his 15th month in the Kitchen of 3-Star Gordon Ramsey...the best restaurant in London?!?


I visited the Speaker's Corner today and ate Chinese food twice already...the really good place was at Crispy Duck in China Town.


I will try to go to the Pub of The Fat Duck tomorrow but I am not sure if I will succeed in this plan; depends on what else I want to do tomorrow, my last day in Europe for Weds. morning I am off to the airport...I can't wait!


Pictures of all this once home.