Hello Everyone!

This week in Voltaggio-land… the brothers reunited at Volt to curb childhood hunger with Share Our Strength’s "A Tasteful Pursuit." Michael and Bryan whipped up delicious fare while raising a whopping $100,000 for kids in their home state of Maryland, and dished out over 600 plates to 100 guests during an eight-course meal! Way to go, guys!

And while we think the world of both our V-Bros— Bryan Voltaggio has been named one of StarChefs.com’s “Rising Stars,” and will be honored at their up-coming rooftop tasting event in the DC-area on October 26. Click HERE to find out more about the award and HERE for tickets to this event.

Bryan also kicked-off a new series of lunchtime “sustainability conversations” with local government leaders by speaking about why he chooses to use local food at his restaurant. Go HERE for the details!

Good news! The brothers are teaming up again October 21 – 24 for the 10th anniversary celebration of the Kohler Food & Wine Experience! For tickets and pricing, and to find out when/where the Voltaggios will be appearing, visit www.kohlerfoodandwine.net.

And keep an eye out for Bryan cruising the open roads come late October when he’s due to receive the new Chevrolet Volt! As we’ve mentioned before, Bryan, along with the other 14 people on the “Volt Customer Advisory Board,” will be test-driving the electric plug-in hybrid for a 3-month period before General Motors makes the vehicle available to the public in 2011.

Lastly, you know we just love it when people blog about our V-bros... Click HERE to read what a blogger for FoodPorn wrote about her dining experience at Volt!

Keep checking back for more Voltaggio updates. Enjoy!

Hey Guys!

Well, I'm both hungry and nauseated after reading about all of your Guilty Pleasures! But like everything in life, one particularly nauseating and delicious Pleasure stood out like a beacon among your frostinged crackers, peanut butter and pickle sandwiches and Krispy Kreme bread puddings.

And the winner is...

General Tso!

Read his rhapsodic and semi-insane review here!

Surely the most horrible and culture-destroying trend in casual  dining is the recent panoply of "ethnic" fast-food joints that have  raced from this country's coasts to its interior like so many exotic  stomach-viruses. God bless the family that goes out for "Mexican  food" only to end up at Taco Bell. Now they have so many other great  styles of food to never experience properly!

That said, I love me some Panda Express Orange Chicken.

Panda Express Orange Chicken is a study in contradictions; bright  orange, like a traffic-cone,  yet I've a strong suspicion no actual  oranges were used in its preparation. Nugget-like in it's  constitution, yet often plagued by gristle. And let's face it, it  smells like an Ambulance-chaser's armpit, yet tastes as sweet and  divine as a closing argument from Clarance Darrow.

Any resemblance to actual Chinese food is almost coincidental. But traditional cuisine  dressed in the garish pageantry of a fast food restaurant,  presided  over by grinning pandas and seasoned with the tears of generations of  assimilation and struggle,  is singularly American. And seeing it  there, in my Styrofoam container, waxy and smothered in syrup, I  thank  God I was born into a place that can come up with something as  beautiful, and as monstrous, as this.

Thanks, General Tso. That was truly vile.

Check in with us on Monday for another fun and far less disgusting assignment! Have a great weekend everyone. Eat your vegetables!

-Audie