From Road to Kitchen to Stable

This morning after a 2.5 hour drive from New York and following a fine day at my parent’s house to celebrate Thanksgiving, I roll in to the farm to find that the two days prior to 27 November had been so busy that we were nearly wiped out of all the stuff that I am [...]

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When I compare my recent output here with what Ruhlman has been dishing out these last few weeks, I feel like a one trick pony. During what is supposed to be a two-month hiatus from writing, Michael has been rattling off great posts on phony food allergies (Did I tell you [...]

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When I compare my recent output here with what Ruhlman has been dishing out these last few weeks, I feel like a one trick pony. During what is supposed to be a two-month hiatus from writing, Michael has been rattling off great posts on phony food allergies (Did I tell you [...]

Never Say "Never"

This list of things one should never do in a restaurant is not only conspicuous for it’s exclusion of truly foolish behaviors like trying to tip the server with an angry dog or arriving with your own china and flatware because you read about some dive where that had been cited by the health [...]

Never Say "Never"

This list of things one should never do in a restaurant is not only conspicuous for it’s exclusion of truly foolish behaviors like trying to tip the server with an angry dog or arriving with your own china and flatware because you read about some dive where that had been cited by the health [...]

Just Another Meal

For someone who spends as much time cooking and thinking about cooking as I do, sometimes it is difficult to think of the act of preparing a meal that does not involve some esoteric ingredient or cooking technique as worth recording. Occasionally though, something about what I am doing while I’m cooking simple [...]

Kodak Moment: The Miracle of Bacon

Christian the Apprentice inspires awe in a child with nothing more or less than bacon.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Kodak Moment: The Miracle of Bacon

Christian the Apprentice inspires awe in a child with nothing more or less than bacon.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

November Blues

I’ve been smitten with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick for so long that I cannot remember the last November that has not caused me to recall -and fret over- these lines from the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book that I’m pretty sure contains a big chunk of the narrative of my soul.
“Whenever [...]

November Blues

I’ve been smitten with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick for so long that I cannot remember the last November that has not caused me to recall -and fret over- these lines from the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book that I’m pretty sure contains a big chunk of the narrative of my soul.
“Whenever [...]