Depression Food is not so Depressing

I’m posting this for those who have never known real hunger. On it’s face it appears to be a doleful monologue about how to make do with pedestrian ingredients when you are so poor that eating money might seem cheaper than exchanging it for food. However, having spent more than a decade of my childhood [...]

Depression Food is not so Depressing

I’m posting this for those who have never known real hunger. On it’s face it appears to be a doleful monologue about how to make do with pedestrian ingredients when you are so poor that eating money might seem cheaper than exchanging it for food. However, having spent more than a decade of my childhood [...]

Good Stuff

Few things are more useful to me than my old Mouli grater. It’s a simple thing and about as pretty as rusted out Oldsmobile in a feral field. Yet it is on my family’s dinner table 4 nights each week (We eat lots of pasta and rissotto. I make no apologies for that.) and [...]

Good Stuff

Few things are more useful to me than my old Mouli grater. It’s a simple thing and about as pretty as rusted out Oldsmobile in a feral field. Yet it is on my family’s dinner table 4 nights each week (We eat lots of pasta and rissotto. I make no apologies for that.) and [...]

Charcuterie Demo at Cia w/ BdG

by Mike Pardus
Here’s a slide show of Robert presenting his world class charcurterie at the CIA last night.
Tonight we’re holding a small seminar on “how to blog”, this post is an example – hence the short prose and unedited photos – tomorrow I’ll give Bob some hair…..
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Not Dead, Just Skiing

by Mike Pardus
Summer is for traveling and doing things at the farm, but when winter sets in I become a ski-dad. My daughter races on the junior circuit in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, so almost every weekend is a road trip for practice or to a race. We’re lucky enough to have friends whose daughter [...]

Insider Story

Aidan Brooks a young British cook training in Spain posts on the effects of the global economic crisis on the haute end of the restaurant business spectrum.
Good stuff; check it out.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Insider Story

Aidan Brooks a young British cook training in Spain posts on the effects of the global economic crisis on the haute end of the restaurant business spectrum.
Good stuff; check it out.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

The Sublime and the Ridiculous

Sublime is the meat from a bull that we butchered today and ridiculous is the bread. Both can be seen in the slideshow below.
The last time I saw anything the color of this meat was in 1980. It was in a small church in the Ticino of Switzerland whose apse was fronted by Doric columns [...]

Service Announcement

I changed the way comments are collected at this blog and I’m not at all sure that I like what I’ve done. Please let me know if the new setup is not working for you. Or, to put a more positive spin on the matter, not too much of a drag.
Bob dG
The best sauce in [...]