Press & Media

Televisision

		CBS - Chef on a Shoestring "Special Mother's Day Meal" Debra Ponzek created a special "Chef on a Shoestring" meal for Mother's Day that is inexpensive and fairly easy to make: chilled tomato soup, frittata, green salad, and citrus panna cotta.
		CBS - Chef on a Shoestring "Cooking, A Family Affair " Debra Ponzek's latest book, "The Family Kitchen," has recipes that parents and kids can make together. She and her daughter prepare a three-course meal for four under $40 on Chef on a Shoestring

Debra Ponzek has appeared on The Late Night with David Letterman, The Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, The Food Network with Sarah Moulton, PBS, Lifetime Television, NBC Today Show, Sarah's Secrets, Cooking Live, and others.

Podcasts

07.23.2008 Interview with the Owner and Chef of Aux Delices by Elizabeth Kopyscinski
Hear the mouth watering story of triple star chef Debra Ponzek's entrepreneurial creations.
Listen to the interview (WE Show Debra Ponzek.mp3 13.5 MB) >>

Cookbooks

The Family Kitchen, by Debra Ponzek, 2006

• Want to prepare one meal the entire family will actually eat? Get your children to finish their vegetables? Spend more quality time with your kids? Enter The Family Kitchen, where award-winning chef and mother of three Debra Ponzek shares recipes that are simple enough to please kids, refined enough to satisfy parents (Random House)... Read more >

The Summer House Cookbook, by Debra Ponzek and Geralyn Delaney Graham, 2003

• Whether your summer house is a beachside bungalow, a lakeside cottage, or a year-round retreat, cooking for family and friends while on vacation can be a delight—if you know how to keep it simple. The Summer House Cookbook has all of the tips, tricks, and recipes guaranteed to make summertime cooking (Random House)... Read more >

• Now, Ponzek is preparing her signature Provençal-inspired cuisine as chef/owner of Aux Délices, her Connecticut-based prepared-food and carryout catering outfit. Gayot reviewers called Aux Délices a “truly exceptional hideaway…one of the area’s best-kept secrets,” while Patricia Brooks of the regional New York Times wrote that “for dining at home on elegant food prepared elsewhere, nothing in the area tops Aux Délices…[we] had a superb meal at home.” (Jeames Beard Foundation) Read more >

Recipes

• The Party Starts Here: Dinner for Twenty : O. the Oprah Magazine
  Something about this season makes you want to gather your nearest and dearest and kick off the holidays with a splendid feast. Chef, restaurateur, and author Debra Ponzek created this menu that's sumptuous, surprising and easier than it looks! Get cooking!
  
• Braised Short Ribs, Oprah.com
  
• Shrimp, Avocado and Mango Salad, Food & Wine
  
• Provencal Puree, Cooking.com

Restaurants

• AOL CityGuide New York
  Her name says it all! To Greenwich's benefit, the noted chef Debra Ponzek left Manhattan and with her husband, Gregory Addonizio, and opened this ultra-simple and cozy kitchen and café whose name translates to "all the wonderful things in life... Read More >