Great Taste Magazine 2010 September | October Issue

Great Taste Magazine 2010 Sept/Oct Issue features Chef Zov Karamardian and culinary news, tips, recommendations and recipes from Orange County restaurant chefs.

Indulge in some guilty pleasures in our Great Taste Magazine 2010 September October issue. Brew master Victor Novak from TAPS Fish House and Brewery gives us a look at some great beer and food pairings and even offers some tips for planning a great beer dinner. Take a tour through some of Orange County’s best breweries as they offer us some inside information about their brews. Also, Chef Gabriel Caliendo keeps the beer trend going with a look at spice-infused beer.

Everyone’s favorite guilty pleasure, and a great pairing with beer, is in this month’s Sur Le Menu: Fried Appetizers. We put together a list of some of the best fried appetizers around Orange County, from Deep Fried Artichoke Hearts at Cedar Creek Inn to Picadillo and Cheese Empanadas at Cafe Tu Tu Tango. If fried food isn’t your thing but you are still looking for an interesting beer and food mash up, author Judy Saunders gives us a look at some of her recipes all of which use beer as one of the main ingredients. Our final take on beer this issue is on delicious beer cocktails that are great served alone or excellent served with food pairings.

This issue’s featured Chef is Chef Zov Karamardian of Zov’s Bistro. Learn about her journey to becoming a Chef and some of her favorite foodie indulgences. Chef Zov even gives us a peek at a couple delicious recipes for Seafood Tagine and Roasted Rack of Lamb.

Like the old saying goes, it’s hard to find good help these days. The Dick Wray Group has been kind enough to offer some tips on how to hire the best employees in the Hospitality Industry. We offer up some tidbits and kudos dealing with industry news along with a look into olive oil through Fran Gage’s book, The New American Olive Oil.

Great Taste Magazine 2010 Sept/Oct Issue covers the restaurants and the professionals with resources, recipes, beautiful photos and many tasty tidbits. Great Taste Magazine, the premiere connection to all the key decision makers in our local Southern California restaurant industry. Each month our 15 year-old full-color trade publication reaches thousands of the area’s top restaurant owners, general managers, executive chefs and buyers. Take a tour through the magazine. Each issue features a restaurant and local chef, and is packed with the timeliest information, critical operational tips and other industry news important to our readers.

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Teri Williams has her finger on the pulse of the local hospitality industry like no one else. Fifteen years as editor and publisher of Orange County’s only hospitality trade magazine combined with her consultancy for the non-profit sector and her public relations expertise give Williams a far-reaching, varied and unique perspective of the industry. Besides her esteemed Great Taste publication, she has extensive experience in the travel industry (retail agent and wholesale), event planning and volunteerism. Williams has contacts around the globe in the restaurant, hotel, media and travel trades. She has also been applauded for her enthusiastic charity work and has chaired numerous chef, food and wine events on behalf of local non-profit organizations, for which she has helped garner more than $1 million in donations through the years. Known for her unflagging enthusiasm, entrepreneurial spirit, can do attitude and joie de vivre, Williams is a constant presence and authority on the OC culinary and hospitality scene.

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