Having a Bad Day in the Kitchen? Make a Talisman

Anyone who has ever burnt a roast or broken mayonnaise without knowing why they screwed eventually realizes that the cause of their problem does not lie with them, but instead is due to external factors that are beyond the understanding of rational minds. The truth is the atmosphere of the earth is inhabited by [...]

Having a Bad Day in the Kitchen? Make a Talisman

Anyone who has ever burnt a roast or broken mayonnaise without knowing why they screwed eventually realizes that the cause of their problem does not lie with them, but instead is due to external factors that are beyond the understanding of rational minds. The truth is the atmosphere of the earth is inhabited by [...]

Pardus’ Southern (Indian) fried Chicken

The days pass slowly and leisurely in one sense and rush past in a blur in others. We wake each morning, some taking a skiff across the river to a network of paths and “roads” for an early morning run, others sleep in, others sip tea and read.
We gather for meals – breakfast, lunch and [...]

Pardus’ Southern (Indian) fried Chicken

The days pass slowly and leisurely in one sense and rush past in a blur in others. We wake each morning, some taking a skiff across the river to a network of paths and “roads” for an early morning run, others sleep in, others sip tea and read.
We gather for meals – breakfast, lunch and [...]

Blogging Wounded

Yesterday I told you about the oven that I am helping to build at Hendricks Farms and Dairy, and I put up a slide show that partially detailed the process of laying up the block for the base. In today’s slide show you will see that we filled in the base with a combination [...]

Blogging Wounded

Yesterday I told you about the oven that I am helping to build at Hendricks Farms and Dairy, and I put up a slide show that partially detailed the process of laying up the block for the base. In today’s slide show you will see that we filled in the base with a combination [...]

New Project: Cob Oven

As regular readers of this blog probably know I take bread baking seriously [because] baking causes me serious joy. So it may not surprise you to read that when I first began working with Trent Hendricks back in November of 2007, we talked about building a cob oven to bake bread, pizza and whatever. [...]

New Project: Cob Oven

As regular readers of this blog probably know I take bread baking seriously [because] baking causes me serious joy. So it may not surprise you to read that when I first began working with Trent Hendricks back in November of 2007, we talked about building a cob oven to bake bread, pizza and whatever. [...]

Pardus at Phillipkutty Farm, Kerala, India

The family which owns the island and operates the plantation also has 5 bungalows for guests. As our group will occupy all of the bungalows we are taken into the main house and greeted as family. There is a grandmother – Anniamam; mother – Annu; and two children – Phillip, 10 year old boy; and [...]

Okra is Beautiful

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The best sauce in the world is hunger.