These are some of my most helpful friends in the kitchen. I tend to like to do things as manually as possible, I think this is just habit from growing up in a place without much electricity. I also find that doing things this way gives me a good workout. I have often thought of putting together a culinary workout type video–if we just spend more time walking, pounding, chopping, whisking and whatnot we would find we have burned plenty of calories by the time we sit down to eat. It is my personal opinion that most of the cooking shows these days are really just geared to sell you some new useless plastic utensil, and I know many people with houses full of unnecessary kitchen gadgets they never use. I don’t really like that old saying–Keep it Simple Stupid–but it does work.
I'm really behind in posting as we haven't been feeling too well. We spent the first 10 days of 2011 purging in the most visceral of ways--right when I was planning a whole bunch of cool posts. As a result I am feeling quite frustrated. I thought I was gonna be on top of things this year--instead I ...
This weekend I finally fulfilled a long-time dream and re-read The Cook by Harry Kressing. For anyone who loves cooking or who is interested in psychology and sinister plots, I highly recommend this book. For anyone who has worked in the service industry, catering for the excessively rich and snobby ...
I discovered this, written by a Shaker while I was studying at the Culinary Institute of America. One of the most fantastic aspects of that school is the huge library they have of culinary works from across the centuries. I was writing a paper on the Shakers. When I first read this I got goose bum ...
It is interesting to see over the past decade or so, as countries such as India and Thailand are putting more and more pressure on their street vendors to shut them down, that illegal street vendors are springing up all over North America -- San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles...th ...
These are some of my most helpful friends in the kitchen. I tend to like to do things as manually as possible, I think this is just habit from growing up in a place without much electricity. I also find that doing things this way gives me a good workout. I have often thought of putting together a culinary workout type video–if we just spend more time walking, pounding, chopping, whisking and whatnot we would find we have burned plenty of calories by the time we sit down to eat. It is my personal opinion that most of the cooking shows these days are really just geared to sell you some new useless plastic utensil, and I know many people with houses full of unnecessary kitchen gadgets they never use. I don’t really like that old saying–Keep it Simple Stupid–but it does work.
