Whoops, there it is.

It's Friday the 20th of April and I'm on the road today traveling I-70 West out of Washington. I’m going up to Pittsburgh to do the opening of the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association Week at the Carlton Hotel. We are doing a dinner tomorrow night for about 140 people. I hope to see a lot of my old friends in Pittsburgh. I’m also hungry for some of their famous sandwiches, french fries, and an omelet on the side.

I spent the last couple of days in Philadelphia filming Comcast Television ON DEMAND’s Digital Cook Book, something entirely new to me. They bring in chefs from all over the country, get them in front of the camera and have them prepare 5 recipes from their own cookbook. I think the Comcast series will air sometime in July and it will be on the pay-per-view channel.

During the filming everything was going perfectly well until I went to boil a piece of fish. There was a little flare up and we had to take a break to reset the scene. As the announcer and I were standing at the back of the sound stage, the rest of the crew was at the front of the stage working in the kitchen to set up for the next shot. Suddenly, one of the legs on the camera tripod buckled. The camera fell backwards and plummeted to the ground. After the technician stopped cursing in disbelief - he had to pick up, what looked to be, a salvageable camera. As he lifted it up, the lens went in one direction and the view piece went in another. One formerly incredible $20,000 broadcast lens bit the dust.
Photography by Kiyomi