Lexington, KY - Horse Capital of the World

Bluegrass Flavors and Feel: 2/17/12 

This was a major week for Lexington’s stature in the food world!

The Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau is proud to congratulate Stella Parks, pastry chef extraordinaire, on her recent award from Food and Wine magazine as one of the “5 Best New Pastry Chefs” in the nation.

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/best-new-pastry-chefs

Food and Wine’s staff covertly visited her home base at Table 310 multiple times and Parks’ sweets and desserts stacked up again competition in major cities from coast to coast.

http://www.table310.com/

In addition to regaling us with her unique creations at Table 310, she somehow finds time to have an extensive online presence. I will let her wit, wisdom and fun sensibility speak for themselves.

Start at her own sassy and smart blog (from which you can glean plenty of modern reflections about the best in Lexington’s culinary world and the broader food scene in general)

http://bravetart.com/

Check out her critiques for Yelp, the online urban meeting place where informed locals post their reviews of just about everything

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=y5ptsWmvGEAftOQaiFhBcg

You can find Parks on Serious Eats, a website with a far reach to passionate food lovers through blogs and its online community. Here she describes Fauxreos, or her homemade Oreos. Where else in the U.S, can you sample something like that…seriously?

http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2011/08/meet-the-fauxreo-how-to-make-oreos-homemade.html

Parks is also a regular contributor to the higher end Gilt Taste, that describes itself as “a market and magazine for food and wine lovers.” I adore this brilliant take on getting champagne into a Valentine’s Day breakfast (and who says that holiday can’t be celebrated any day?)

http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/4453-champagne-waffles-chocolate-butter-for-valentine-s

Congrats again, Stella, and thank you for making life in Lexington ever so much sweeter!