Inqlings | Ex-Pod chef cooks up TV gig
Chef Michael Schulson, who banged pots here at Pod before heading to New York to head the kitchen at the Big Apple's Buddakan, is bound for small-screen stardom. In the Style Network series Pantry Raid, he makes house calls to show ordinary people how to raid their cupboards to make do with what's on hand.
Chef
Michael Schulson
, who banged pots here at Pod before heading to New York to head the kitchen at the Big Apple's Buddakan, is bound for small-screen stardom. In the Style Network series
Pantry Raid
, he makes house calls to show ordinary people how to raid their cupboards to make do with what's on hand.
A Style news release says Schulson turns "the time-challenged and kitchen-clueless into gourmet chefs."
Time-challenged by months of L.A.-based tapings, Schulson, 33, no longer works at Buddakan, says owner Stephen Starr, who said they still are on good terms. Schulson - who two years ago shot a pilot called Go Ahead Make My Dinner - was busy taping yesterday, a Style rep says. The first weekly Pantry Raid episode premieres at 9 p.m. Aug. 29.
Media people
Shake-up at talk outlet WURD (900):
Kernie Anderson
yesterday replaced longtime general manager
W. Cody Anderson
- no relation - who had helped start the station four years ago. (Kernie also replaced Cody years ago at the old WHAT-AM.) Kernie Anderson says WURD owner
Walter Lomax
wanted changes now that WURD is the city's lone African American-focused AM station, with WDAS-AM going Spanish and WHAT playing music.
It's a girl and a birthday gift for CW57's Ashley Harder, who delivered daughter Ava Marie on Sunday, her 21st birthday. The Marlton-bred Harder was crowned Miss New Jersey USA but resigned in January after learning she was pregnant. Baby's father is Gregg D'Antonio.
CBS3 reporter Marge Pala, who'd most recently been covering Delaware part time, has retired after 29 years. Pala, 57, went on personal leave 90 days ago. She started at KYW in 1978 as a member of the station's vaunted I-Team.
Herb Clarke, who did 39 years at WCAU/NBC10, will get the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors' Award during the 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards on Sept. 15. This year's local Emmy nominations will be spilled tomorrow night.
A mural marking the 50th anniversary of the first national broadcast of American Bandstand will be unveiled Thursday in an invitation-only event at Bandstand's onetime West Philly home. Participants, including emcee Jerry Blavat; singers Chubby Checker and Connie Francis; the Bandstand Regulars; Charlie Gracie; Danny and the Juniors; The Dovells; and the CAPA High School dancers, have been told to show up before breakfast as organizers hope for a hit (though not live) on ABC's Good Morning America.
What's cooking
A ho-hum Old City corner is getting bright new life tomorrow: Foster's Homeware combines Foster's Gourmet Cookware, which a month ago left its home at Reading Terminal Market, and sister store Foster's Urban Homeware. It's on part of the ground floor of the Colonial Penn building at Fourth and Market with cookware, furniture, gifts and a demo kitchen. Owner
Ken Foster
says he spent a half-million on construction and a half-mil more on inventory.
Such a thing as a free lunch: Tim Spinner, a chef at Amada restaurant, won Saladworks' celebrity-chef contest with a Castilian fig salad. Saladworks, adding it to the menu through Oct. 31, will dispense portions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at its 15th and Spring Garden Streets eatery.