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Food & DrinkWest Side Story: Jurg Munch on food trends, foie gras and balancing the old with the newOctober 14, 2010 | 09:36 AMby Jen RussoRecently, I caught up with Jurg Munch, owner of Lahaina Grill. Munch had a lot to say about what makes things tick at his West side bistro, which is celebrating 20 years in business by offering 50 percent off entrees on the 20th of every month. Tell me about your journey as a chef. After that I worked at the Hotel Jungfrau Victoria in Interlaken and the restaurant Chez Max in Zurich. I always had an interest in Asia and Asian food, which brought me to an opportunity in Hong Kong in 1980, as a sous chef at the Excelsior Hotel, a Mandarin Oriental property. I returned to Switzerland to earn my degree in  |
Food & Drink 2Think the California white is for unsophisticated palates only? Think againOctober 14, 2010 | 09:46 AMby Jason "Cass" CastleIn a fancy restaurant somewhere in Hawaii, a well-dressed woman tells the waiter, "I would love a glass of Chablis." The server swiftly responds with, "I'm sorry, we don't offer Chablis by the glass but we do have a wonderful unoaked California chardonnay that might be a perfect substitute." Response: "Oh…I absolutely hate chardonnay." It seems our knee-jerk reaction to chardonnay has become so quick we even hate it when we order it (so we are all on the same page, the grape used |
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