Sheppard Mansion Idyll

My wife and I spent last Saturday and Sunday at what in retrospect seems like the most unlikely place in the world: a meticulously presented fin de siecle mansion nested in the heart of an old American factory town.
The place seems unlikely not only because it is a very grand house in a sea [...]

Sheppard Mansion Idyll

My wife and I spent last Saturday and Sunday at what in retrospect seems like the most unlikely place in the world: a meticulously presented fin de siecle mansion nested in the heart of an old American factory town.
The place seems unlikely not only because it is a very grand house in a sea [...]

The Staff of Sheppard Mansion

Andrew Little, Chef de CusineKaren Van Guilder, Restaurant Manager and Special Events CoordinatorScott Robinson, Sous ChefAlan Taulbee, Chef de PartieDaniel Smith, Chef de PartieJessica Daley, Waiter
Timothy Bobb, InnkeeperErin Mumma, WaiterJeremy Braughler, WaiterSamuel Jacquez, WaiterRobert Womack, Dishwasher
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Bennigan’s Restaurants Shut Down Nationwide

This might be cause for celebration if there was reason to believe that it was the beginning of a long trend. And, of course, we don’t like to read about people losing their jobs.Bennigan’s Restaurants Shut Down Nationwide
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Now This

This is just sad.
Apparently so few humans have been able to eat her cooking, that Rachael Ray has had to turn to feeding dogs to satisfy her creative ambitions. This seems “EVOO” on it’s face, yet I suppose we should be happy that the dogs are finding her food “Yum-o.” At least [...]

Now This

This is just sad.
Apparently so few humans have been able to eat her cooking, that Rachael Ray has had to turn to feeding dogs to satisfy her creative ambitions. This seems “EVOO” on it’s face, yet I suppose we should be happy that the dogs are finding her food “Yum-o.” At least [...]

Classic Win at Chicago

We had some excitement at Hendrick’s Farms and Dairy last week when within a couple of hot Friday afternoon hours, 3 of our hogs came back from the dead (1) in boxes as loins and bellies and bags of ground meat and we learned that Trent and Rachel had won a 3rd place prize [...]

Classic Win at Chicago

We had some excitement at Hendrick’s Farms and Dairy last week when within a couple of hot Friday afternoon hours, 3 of our hogs came back from the dead (1) in boxes as loins and bellies and bags of ground meat and we learned that Trent and Rachel had won a 3rd place prize [...]

Lonzino Update

In an earlier post I wrote with some trepidation about a couple of IBP loins that had come into my possession under questionable circumstances and how I decided to cure them just see how they turned out. Well, they turned out much better than I thought they would.
The cure I used was a mixture [...]

Lonzino Update

In an earlier post I wrote with some trepidation about a couple of IBP loins that had come into my possession under questionable circumstances and how I decided to cure them just see how they turned out. Well, they turned out much better than I thought they would.
The cure I used was a mixture [...]