Dining - Sept. 1, 2009
Palermo's Pizza gets "Unwrapped" Sept. 14
Milwaukee's Palermo's Pizza makes its national television debut on the Food Network's "Unwrapped" show. The episode, titled "The Big Chill," airs at 8 p.m. on Sept. 14 and gives audiences a peek inside Palermo Villa, the company's facility in the Menomonee Valley.
Tags: Unwrapped, Food Network, Palermos, TV, tours, Menomonee Valley, Gaspare "Jack" Falluca, Rustico, Primo thin, Palermo's, pizza, Chris Dresselhuys

Dining - July 20, 2009
Zimmern, Fieri showcase Milwaukee dining
Milwaukee's "fresh energy and old world charm" are featured on "Appetite for Life" with Andrew Zimmern. While The Food Network is ready to showcase Brady Street's Cempazuchi.
Tags: Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods, Appetite for Life, Travel Channel, Food Network, Guy Fieri, tourism, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives

Dining - July 18, 2009
Auditioning to be "The Next Food Network Star"
We'd been talking about it for a while and the plan had finally materialized. Jon and I would join our friends Tom and Dora in Chicago so Dora and I could audition for the Food Network series "The Next Food Network Star."
Tags: the next food network star, food network, reality show, cooking show, culinary, mitmita

Dining - May 4, 2009
Food Network's Fieri finds Comet and Cempazuchi
Back in February, Milwaukee ex-pat Kris Ausan, who works as a researcher for the Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," hosted by Guy Fieri, contacted me to ask for some suggestions. Last week, Fieri came to film at two area restaurants.
Tags: Guy Fieri, Food Network, Kris Ausan, Comet, Cempazuchi, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

Dining - Nov. 11, 2008
Next Iron Chef Symon will run Palomar restaurant
Cleveland-born chef Michael Symon and the 2007 winner of the Food Network's "The Next Iron Chef" has been tabbed to open a new restaurant at The Residences at Hotel Palomar, a coming soon development at 520 W. McKinley Ave. in Downtown Milwaukee.
Tags: Michael Symon, Iron Chef, Palomar, Hotel Palomar, Kimpton, Gatehouse Capital, Park East, Food Network, development