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Master Class Speaker: Melba Wilson is the owner of a growing culinary empire based in New York’s famed Harlem neighborhood. Her renowned restaurant, Melba’s, is a hot spot for celebrities, locals and tourists from around the world who crave unbeatable American comfort food.

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Melba’s Restaurant opened its doors in 2005 and has come to be regarded as the premier comfort food destination in New York City. The eponymous restaurant was the vision of founder, Melba Wilson.  Being born, bred and buttered in Harlem, Melba knew she wanted to stay close to home so she could nurture and provide an exquisite yet comfortable dining experience to the community that raised her.

As a young adult working at Sylvia's, Rosa Mexicano and Windows on the World restaurants, Melba saw firsthand what it took to own and operate a successful business. She quickly became  aware that diners have the opportunity to eat wherever they choose.

When great food is combined with remarkable service, the result is a dining destination that patrons come to regard as home. It is the commitment to exceptional customer service, coupled with great food that make the standard of excellence that exists today.

On any given day, you can find Melba greeting guests  with hugs, her trademark smile and inquiring of her customers as to whether there is anything she can do to enhance their dining experience. After all, dining at Melba's is like coming home for dinner, whenever you're away from home.


RESTAURANT LOCATION
300 W. 114th St.,
New York, NY 10026
@Frederick Douglass Blvd.
Website:  https://www.melbasrestaurant.com


About the Author
Melba Wilson got her start in the restaurant business at Harlem’s famous Sylvia’s Restaurant, where she held a variety of service and managerial positions. She conceptualized and launched the popular Sunday Gospel Brunch, which was so successful that the restaurant industry’s elite quickly came calling.

 Today she is the proud sole owner of three Harlem based businesses, Melba’s Restaurant, Melba’s Catering, and a 350-seat dining hall and cafeteria on 125th street called Melba’s 125.

Melba’s Restaurant has won rave reviews from New York Magazine, Time Out, The New Yorker, The Daily News, Zagat’s and Interview Magazine. The restaurant was also named Best Brunch for Kids by Time Out New York, and Best Soul Food by Zagat’s.

She appears frequently on national TV news and cooking shows. Designer Isaac Mizrahi hand-picked Melba as one of his Favorite Ladies to represent his Liz Claiborne line in a series of national advertisements entitled, REAL Women.

The proud mother of a son, Melba has been honored twice by Ebony magazine with their Taste of Ebony Award; Melba is the recipient of the Westside Spirit Award, The Entrepreneur Award presented by Congressman Charles Rangel, The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce Award, The Thurgood Marshall Prestige Award, and the Heritage Award from the BCA.









Melba's American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen by Melba Wilson  

Fresh from the kitchen of her legendary Harlem restaurant, Melba’s, the reigning queen of American comfort food serves up one hundred delectable recipes that put her own special touch on favorite dishes—and taste just like home.

Where do celebrities and foodies go for the most delicious fried chicken and eggnog waffles? To Melba’s, of course! Melba Wilson is a sweet, upbeat, occasionally sassy, always genuine ambassador for the cuisine known for years as soul food but that she prefers to call American comfort food. Melba cut her culinary teeth at the iconic Sylvia’s, the famed Windows on the World, and the hugely popular Rosa Mexicano.

Now, as the pioneering owner of her own legendary Harlem restaurant, she proudly holds court in Melba’s always-packed dining room, dishing out lovingly prepared sweet potato pie, wine-braised short ribs, BBQ turkey meatloaf, deviled eggs, and a legion of mouth-watering American classics as well as unforgettable special twists on beloved comfort foods.

Now you don’t have to leave the comfort of your own home to dig into her sumptuous signature recipes! With mouthwatering full-color photography and a beautiful design, Melba’s American Comfort features the secrets of her irresistible home cooking, passed down from her great-grandmother and other talented generations and given her own loving variations, plus a treasure trove of delightful stories from the heart of her bustling kitchen.



Melba's American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen by Melba Wilson 

Popular chef and entrepreneur Melba Wilson, founder of the famed Harlem restaurant, Melba’s, invites you to experience the delicious food of her heritage in MELBA’S AMERICAN COMFORT: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen.

In the more than one hundred delectable recipes of Melba’s American Comfort, Melba puts her own special touch on favorite dishes, many passed down through generations of her family – and all taste just like home. “The way I see it,” Melba Wilson says, “soul food is the foundation of American comfort food, just like spirituals and the blues are the foundation of American popular music.”

Melba is all about the crossover, about melding the down-home country cooking of her Southern roots with the urban cultural influences of New York City. In Melba’s world, Fried Chicken with Waffles is an American comfort classic – and it’s also one of Melba’s signature dishes and among her calling cards to national prominence.

Melba cut her culinary teeth at the iconic Sylvia’s, where she launched the popular Sunday Gospel Brunch, the famed Windows on the World, and the hugely popular Rosa Mexicano. Now, as the owner of three Harlem businesses, she welcomes visitors from all neighborhoods, states, countries, and walks of life.

In Melba’s always-packed dining rooms, she dishes out lovingly prepared Sweet Potato Pie, Eggnog Waffles, Wine-braised Short Ribs, BBQ Turkey Meatloaf, Caribbean Spiced Shrimp with Melba’s own Jamaican Jerk Marinade, Slow-Roasted Adobo Turkey, and five fabulous variations of fried chicken, including one with Melba’s secret spice mix, a life-changing Gluten-Free recipe, and her famous Throwdown Chicken, with which she beat Bobby Flay on national TV. Legions of other mouth-watering classics and unforgettable special twists on beloved comfort foods make this a treasury to which you will turn again and again.

With gorgeous color photography and a beautiful, dynamic design that reflects Chef Melba’s vivacious, warm personality, Melba’s American Comfort also reveals other secrets of Melba’s irresistible home cooking, plus a treasure trove of delightful stories and wisdom from the heart of her bustling kitchen.


Melba's American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen by Melba Wilson
http://www.amazon.com/Melbas-American-Comfort-Recipes-Kitchen/dp/1476795282




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