by julescatering | Mar 20, 2012 | Entertaining, Food In Literature, Our Favorite Things, Parties, Products
Runcible spoons…edible spoons. The first is pure nonsense, the second pure genius! First, the nonsense: From the age of 16, Victorian poet-artist-illustrator Edward Lear (the 21st child of 22 children!) was drawing “for his bread and cheese.” A few...
by julescatering | Mar 17, 2012 | Food History, Food In Literature, Holidays, Our Favorite Things, Products, Team
Why ‘corned’ beef? For thousands of years people have cured and preserved beef by covering it with salt the size of kernels of corn, and the name corned beef refers back to a time when the word ‘corn; was applied to anything granular. The Irish...
by julescatering | Feb 14, 2012 | Menus, Products, Team
The King of Hearts We stopped by Jules Catering’s busy kitchen one morning just before Valentine’s Day to pay tribute to ‘Wilmar, King of Hearts’ (more commonly known as ‘Assistant Pastry Chef Wilmar Aristizabal), who has been with Jules...
by julescatering | Jan 11, 2012 | Cookbooks, Entertaining, Our Favorite Things, Products, Recipes, Restaurants, Travel
We love our bubbly, but when recently celebrating New Year’s Eve in Athens, our drink of choice was the Tears of Chios Cocktail served in the Roof Garden Bar atop the historic Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square. At first sip we knew we were onto something...
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