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Class Act
Celebrity chef Alex Hitz teaches a Los Angeles cooking club his secrets to perfecting the ultimate holiday feast. Celebrity chef and author Alex Hitz has taught legions of fans to cook with his legendary book, My Beverly Hills Kitchen. But when he accepted an invitation from friend and fellow Angeleno Kim Uzielli to instruct a cooking club of kitchen-savvy friends on how to prepare a holiday feast, Hitz was faced with the challenge of teaching his very first class. “Kim calle


A Swell Noel
Chef, cookbook author, and master entertainer Alex Hitz hosts a Christmas Eve dinner for 40 in his Los Angeles home. You could say Alex Hitz inherited his love for throwing a good party. His mother, Caroline, a consummate hostess, and his stepfather, the famed conductor Robert Shaw, “entertained constantly,” he says. Hitz continues the family tradition, and sets Christmas Eve aside to share a sparkling evening at home with friends. No surprise, food is paramount, but the at


Hitz in the Details
A Host with the most Alex Hitz sets the Thanksgiving table and shares his entertaining quips. To Alex Hitz, entertaining is an art form: a glorious culmination of thoughtful planning and meticulous preparation. His Southern manners and East Coast sensibility combine to produce abundant and aesthetically superior dinner parties. His flair for entertaining began with a love for cooking (which he inherited from his mother), but certainly did not end there: “There’s an art to bei


Classic Cooking
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Host an Oscar-Worthy Party
In the role of playing gracious host, Atlanta native Alex Hitz, author of My Beverly Hills Kitchen, is a mega-star. Use his do-ahead menu and tips for your own award-winning performance. Southern Living knows a thing or two about southern cooking, and in their February, 2013 issue, the magazine published four of Alex’s recipes, and some of his tips on how to host an Oscar-worthy party. Click here to see Alex’s recipes for Gougères, Fried Chicken Wings, Broccoli Slaw, and hi


World chefs: Hitz enhances southern food with French techniques
Alex, along with his book, My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist, were featured in the Chicago Tribune in October, 2012. Click here to read the Tribune’s interview with Alex and to find his recipe for Butternut Squash Soup. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alex Hitz grew up in Georgia, was classically trained in France and uses the culinary techniques he learned in Europe to enhance the southern food of his childhood. In his first cookbook, "My Beverly Hi


Best of 2012: A Southern cookbook sampler | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As 2012 draws to a close, we pause to remember some of the best Southern cookbooks of the year, and we include a delicious and easy-to-prepare recipe from each.Want to get a cocktail party off to a fabulous start? Send out a tray of Alex Hitz’s Gougères – from “My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist.”Want to reward Santa for staying up all night? Make him Debbie Moose’s Sweet Potato Pancakes with Orange Butter, from “Buttermilk.” Looking for an


Comfort Food Haute Cuisine from Alex Hitz, Perfect for Thanksgiving & Christmas
Here at the Truffle, we enter that time of year when we must make decisions about where to go on each various up-coming holidays. Between divorce and re-marriage and birth family and new family, and the growing tradition for Jewish Angelenos to celebrate Christmas, it has become all the more daunting to make plans. But regardless if you are the host or if you are a guest, we have an idea to make your holidays a little more comforting this year … May we direct your attention


Alex Hitz and His Beverly Hills Kitchen
One of the upcoming Fall book releases about which I am most excited is Alex Hitz’s My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist. Alex, a native Atlantan whose main residence is now in Beverly Hills, is known far and wide for his dapper, classic, and elegant style of entertaining. An inveterate party giver, Alex frequently hosts buffet suppers and seated dinners for guests hailing from far and wide, just one of the reasons why Hitz’s reputation h

