It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that I share our latest news:

We are thrilled to announce that Chef Ming Tsai is the newest member of the Culinary Podcast Network. The Simply Ming Videocast delivers his unique brand of culinary instruction, which has been an inspiration for many professional and home cooks, and we are honored to have him as part of our collection of shows.

Host Ming Tsai shares simple tips on everything from wine basics to filleting fish in this complementary videocast to Simply Ming, the PBS show from WGBH Boston. Ming is the Chef/Owner of the world-renowned East/West bistro Blue Ginger, Emmy award winning host of the Food Network’s East Meets West and Ming’s Quest, and author of cookbooks Blue Ginger and Simply Ming.

Since Chef Tsai's show is a videocast, you can watch it directly on iTunes, or on your video iPod.

-- "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

...actually has his own show, which you can listen to via the Culinary Podcast Network. The show is called Gastrologica.

He is outspoken, saucy, and our thinking is in line on many things -- I think you'll enjoy him.

-- "Good God!! I thought that was the end. SOLO was out. My DSL was down to 2 mbps and I had a really nasty itch I couldn't reach." Ross Elliot

Do get that SteveW guy back, he is awesome and sees things my way.

What's in a name? Apparently quite a bit.

I'm very intrigued by the need for people to label themselves. "I am an 'X'." Why is that important? And if it touches a nerve when someone calls it into question, does that not reveal something within that might need to be addressed? I say this from personal experience (which is why it is a topic of interest).

Ross, I will get a gun, a cannon, and several small boats just in case the waters get deep.

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

GO GET EM JEN! FOODIES FOREVER!

Ah, Jen, you're becoming what's known as "public" property.

As De Niro said in The Untouchables: I grew up in a tough neighbourhood where you could get further with a gun and a smile than you could with just a gun.

Buy a gun

Well, show #1 was greeted with some hate mail the next morning (comments are a pop-up link). This should be an interesting adventure -- I'm realizing how hypersensitive the public is, and can only imagine what's to come when I really get into the subject matter. Sheesh.

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

As long as it doesn't have anything to do with that fig leaf...

-- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

My MP3 player is sweating profusely. Methinks Little Miss Iannolo is about to get more than she bargained for...