Celebrate the Holidays…

December 10th, 2009
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… with the staff of The Standard Hotel. Gotta admit— the F&B/Hospitality industries really know how to throw a party like nobody else’s business! :)    

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The Lives of Others

December 7th, 2009
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I’m running out of great films to recommend! What to do, what to do… Oh, I know! I’ll just inquire of other people which films they’d recommend. And to keep it all in the spirit of PX This, I’ll ask some of the aficionados and arbiters in and around the F&B/Nightlife industry! Won’t that be […]

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Presenting: Jean-Philippe Boucicaut

November 5th, 2009
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More photographs and information on Jean-Philippe “JP” Boucicaut’s works are available here, and at a story describing his recent exhibit.        

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Vatel …

September 22nd, 2009
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OK, so I promised at some point I would go back to recommending movies with F&B related themes. Certainly, no F&B film appreciation repertoire is complete without three of the best movies ever made about food and/or wine— Vatel, Eat Drink Man Woman, and the more recently released, Bottle Shock.   Visually stunning, viscerally moving, […]

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Food, Inc.

July 19th, 2009
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Sure, you’ve already heard all about it, and maybe at this point you feel like you’ve already seen it. Watch Food, Inc. anyway. If you’re in the F&B industry making a living off funneling things into other people’s mouths and stomachs, it is your duty and responsibility to learn as much as you can about […]

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