Deidre Schipani
Restaurant Critic
Deidre Schipani has a 26-year career in culinary arts, teaching and writing. For the past 10 years, she has been manager of culinary services for Lunds and Byerly's, a chain of 23 upscale supermarkets in the upper Midwest. She directed the company's School of Culinary Arts, managed retail culinary services and oversaw publications, resource material and a Web site. Schipani was a restaurant critic and food writer for the 70,000-circulation Minnesota Monthly magazine from 1991-96. She wrote a food and wine column for Patuxent Publishing Co., a group of weekly newspapers in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area, from 1981-88. She was a recipe developer for "Prevention's Quick and Healthy Low Fat Cooking: Featuring All American Food" (Rodale Press, 1995) and was the editor, test kitchen manager and food writer for The Byerly Bag, a supermarket publication, from 1997 to 2006. From 1982-86, she owned and operated a full-service catering business in the Baltimore-Washington area. Schipani received a diploma, with honors, in classical French cooking from the L'Academie de Cuisine in Bethesda, Md., in 1982. She has a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Rosemont College in Pennsylvania and master's degree in education, magna cum laude, from Loyola College in Baltimore. She also took courses in restaurant management from Howard Community College in Maryland, attended the International Association of Culinary Professionals Master Class Program and has earned the highest level of certification, Certified Culinary Professional, from the IACP, demonstrating competency in food safety, nutrition, food science and world and U.S. cuisines.
Recent Stories
Tokyo Bistro and Sushi Bar
Culinary Caravan of the Far East
Tokyo Bistro and Sushi Bar had hardly cut its culinary teeth on hamachi kami and tonkatsu when it announced "You asked, we listened" and revealed its new menu. The restaurant is now featuring the foods of Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and China! Granted the foods of China and ...
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Central BBQ tender to the bone
Barbecue: Early on in my food career, the great debate was is it a noun or a verb? Is it pork, beef or chicken? And how did you spell it, with a "c" or a "q"?
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Alluette's Jazz Cafe: A southern muse on Marion square
Alluette Jones-Smalls is the Holy City's muse. In her holistic-soul food-Southern restaurants, Alluette's Cafe and Alluette's Jazz Cafe, you will find a supporter of local, regional and seasonal products. You will be assured of organic produce from Fields Farm, hormone and antibiotic-free meats, and no white sugar. You might even be present when David Belanger of Clammer Dave's Sustainable Gourmet makes his delivery of freshly harvested clams and oysters.
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Twisted Fish manages sports and social discourse with good food
I spotted the signs for "Twisted Fish" while driving north on U.S. Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant. Was it a tropical fish store with a quirky name? Or a toy store featuring the 2007 Creative Game of the Year, Twisted Fish? It was neither.
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Liberty Tap Room & Grill
The hops are haute at Mount Pleasant restaurant
The Queensborough Shopping Center does not feel like a neighborhood. But when you step into Liberty Tap Room & Grill (on the site of the former TBonz Gill and Grill) you feel like your neighbors are in "the house."
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The Sandbar Restaurant
Sunsets and Seafood on the Folly River
It would appear that Sandbar Restaurant and Bowen's Island on Folly Beach are cloned from similar culinary DNA.
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Prices are low, the satisfaction is high at Greek restaurant
In a tired shopping center off Dorchester Road, a serious job of whitewashing has Opa Cafe sparkling. There is no mistaking the cinder block supports for alabaster Doric columns but when the sun is dropping in the western sky, Opa twinkles.
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Tenichi Steakhouse cut-rate Asian for today's economy
Welcome China Restaurant is no more. The woks and grills are now tended by kimono-wrapped chefs speaking sushi and hibachi. The good luck cat, maneki neko, has a paw extended in greeting.
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Taco Boy downtown
Holy Mole Verde! Business sure is brisk on Huger Street
It was a simple announcement under "architecture, engineering and construction" in December of 2008 - Taco Boy was finally coming to the peninsula. But this would be no ordinary masked, sombrero clad, bow-tie wearing taco-serving mascota but rather verde Taco Boy.
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et cetera
Specialty food shop morphs into impressive tapas destination
The Spanish know them as tapas, the Greeks, as meze. We used to know them as antipasti. But now they are known as stuzzichini (Rome), cicchetti (Venice) spunti and piccolini. And for three days of the week, you can feast on them at et cetera, a small, specialty foods shop and cafe located on Daniel Island.
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