{"id":21175,"date":"2017-11-08T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21175"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:16:06","slug":"michael-smith-no-food-pedestals-just-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/michael-smith-no-food-pedestals-just-a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Smith: No food pedestals, just a celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/living-story\/7805271-michael-smith-no-food-pedestals-just-a-celebration\/\">Hamilton Spectator<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For having such an exacting profession, Chef Michael Smith isn&#8217;t a fan of perfection.<\/p>\n<p>He knows the importance of nailing recipes as the best-selling author of 10 cookbooks. But he&#8217;s also made a name for himself by advocating for free-styling in the kitchen in his Food Network Canada series, &#8220;Chef at Home.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Smith will bring that message to Niagara later this month when he headlines the latest instalment of Tastes in Niagara, a series of food shindigs hosted by Fallsview Events that features some of Canada&#8217;s most recognizable chefs.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which happens on Wednesday, Nov. 22 at Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steakhouse and Lounge in Niagara Falls, includes a four-course meal of Smith&#8217;s recipes, a cooking demo by the well-known culinarian, a meet and greet and some &#8220;hijinks and hilarity up my sleeve,&#8221; Smith promised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Hamilton Spectator: For having such an exacting profession, Chef Michael Smith isn&#8217;t a fan of perfection. He knows the importance of nailing recipes as the best-selling author of 10 cookbooks. But he&#8217;s also made a name for himself by advocating for free-styling in the kitchen in his Food Network Canada series, &#8220;Chef at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,26,2],"tags":[9230,2269,13230,13229,2071,8070,8523,13228],"class_list":["post-21175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-dining","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-author","tag-chef","tag-cookbook","tag-fallsview-events","tag-hamilton-spectator","tag-michael-smith","tag-ruths-chris-steak-house","tag-tastes-in-niagara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21176,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions\/21176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}