FEATURES

• "Dishing up for the Dalai Lama,” Daily News and Analysis, August 2, 2007 by Vikas Hotwani.
   

• “How Does Your Garden Grow,” New York Restaurant Insider, July 2007, by Francine Cohen.
   

• “The Nourishers: The Green Issue” Vanity Fair, May 2007.
   

• “Paul Newman’s Newest Endeavor: With Food Business Thriving, Acting May be a ‘Closebd Book’ for Screen Legend” ABC Nightline, May 24, 2007, by Cynthia McFadden.
   

• “Hot Ticket: Doing Well, Doing Good, A Remedaled Chef joins Two Oscar Winners to Stage a Sustainable SRO New England Restaurant” Food Arts, May 2007, by Chris Styler.
   

• “95 Hot Tables, 2007” Conde Nast Traveler, May 2007
   

• “Paul Newman’s Next Act, Co-Starring Chef Michel Nischan,” Food and Wine, March 2007, by Jason Zinoman.
   

• “Curtain Call: Restaurant Takes Center Stage in Westport,” The Advocate, January 17, 2007, by Meghan E. Flynn
   

• “He’s Got Salad Covered. Can He Serve You Dinner?”
  New York Times, September 27, 2006, by Kim Severson.
   

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EVENTS

• “U.S. ‘Food Fight’ Comes to Westport,” Westport Now, July 23, 2007, by Ed Kiersch.
   

• “Panel to focus on local effect of federal agriculture policy,” The Advocate, July 22, 2007, by Lisa Chamoff.
   

• “Government subsidizing fat, farm bill opponent says: Forum discusses nation’s five-year food policy,” The Advocate, July 24, 2007, by Lisa Chamoff.
   

• “Now We’re Cooking: These Famous Chefs Take Time Off From Their Busy Schedules to Raise Money for Those in Need,” Social Affairs, June 8, 2007, by J.L. Cesear.
   

• “Pilot Light Takes it From the Tops,” Food Arts, April 2007
   

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REVIEWS

• “Dressing the Part: Act 1of Restaurant at Westport Playhouse has Audience Atwitter,” Hartford Courant, October 2006, by Elissa Altman
   

  “…crispy pork belly so magnificent in its unctuously sweet saltiness that would sell my grandmother to have an order of it and it alone….”

  
    

• “Heidi’s Cookbook Picks,” Food & Wine, February 2007, by Heidi Swanson
   

• “Homegrown: Pure and Simple,” reviewed by William I. Lengeman III, Epicurean.com: For Food and Wine Lovers

   

  “…after spending enough time in the rarefied world of hoity-toity cuisine, where it seems that flash and the relentless pressure to innovate reign supreme, it's surprising that more chefs don't choose to decompress the way Michael Nischan did.”

  
    

• “Cooking: Holiday Books,” reviewed by Corby Kummer, New York Times Review of Books, October 2005.
    

  “..easily the most appealing American cookbook…”

  
    

• “Homegrown: Pure and Simple,” reviewed by Jennifer Wickes, Suite 101.com October 2005.
   

  “… delicious, appetizing recipes fill this book, all of which were made from the freshest organic ingredients, giving a pure simple taste. An excellent second book by Michel Nischan…”

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AWARDS

• Dressing Room: A Homegrown Restaurant, Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator, August 2007
   

• “Taste: Pure and Simple,” 2004 James Beard Foundation, Health Focus & Vegetarian Cookbook of the Year
   

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PODCASTS and VODCASTS

• Relevant Times Radio Hour: July 19, 2007
   

• Pure & Simple with Michel Nischan (Lime TV Network)
   

• The Restaurant Guys Radio.com
   

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