Farm News

In an effort to minimize the farm’s consumption of fossil fuels and the impact of heavy machinery on the soil Trent uses horses for tillage. Here he is striking a pose for sustainable agriculture while spreading compost. From the look of this picture it seems to me that his motivation for eschewing internal combustion [...]

Farm News

In an effort to minimize the farm’s consumption of fossil fuels and the impact of heavy machinery on the soil Trent uses horses for tillage. Here he is striking a pose for sustainable agriculture while spreading compost. From the look of this picture it seems to me that his motivation for eschewing internal combustion [...]

De Architectura

I made two more torta rustica on Friday and shot a bunch of photos during the construction of one. Still missing are the dough mixing and rolling, baking and “pressing under weight” steps. If I get around to shooting those steps, I will add them. But as anyone who has ever worked in a [...]

Pig News

I’m too tired right now to spend a lot of words putting these photos into context. So, it’ll have to suffice to say let the slides and the captions tell the story. Sorry, but I’m spent. I will say this though, pigs can be total pigs. I mean, how uncool is it for a [...]

Chef Gets Shot, Keeps Cooking

Chef Paul Prudhomme Grazed by Bullet
(I didn’t know this guy was still alive, did you?)
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Chef Gets Shot, Keeps Cooking

Chef Paul Prudhomme Grazed by Bullet
(I didn’t know this guy was still alive, did you?)
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Model Torta Rustica

Torta: cake or pieRustica: from rustico meaning folksy, rustic
When you spend as much time in the kitchen as I have, the stuff that billows up from the memory well often has something to do with food. Such was the case last week as I was trying to figure out what to do with a surplus [...]

Model Torta Rustica

Torta: cake or pieRustica: from rustico meaning folksy, rustic
When you spend as much time in the kitchen as I have, the stuff that billows up from the memory well often has something to do with food. Such was the case last week as I was trying to figure out what to do with a surplus [...]

Lest U 4 Get

When you consider the roots of contemporary American junk food culture, be afraid, very afraid because those roots are pretty (by American standards) deep.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Lest U 4 Get

When you consider the roots of contemporary American junk food culture, be afraid, very afraid because those roots are pretty (by American standards) deep.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.