by Brian | Mar 18, 2014 | News, Recipes
Suzen is an expert in culinary team building. Really, the expert. She pioneered using the kitchen for team activities. What kind of activities? Perhaps just an episode of fun with people casually preparing a meal together. Perhaps an evening filled with...
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by Brian | Mar 17, 2014 | Cookbook Review
This blog is for foodies, so people visit for recipes and the photos. And perhaps for occasionally wacky stories about a new way to consume chocolate or my lovely wife’s uphill battle to steer me towards healthy foods with less sugar content. Fat chance, pun intended....
by Brian | Mar 16, 2014 | Recipes
Hearty and regional. Calvados is the apple-based treasure that Normandy prides, along with its chickens. The Normandy coast is not quite the same climate as the south of France. The terroir affects everyone and everything. The people, often with several layers of...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2014 | Recipes
On a snowy Sunday, I found Suzen checking out our cookbooks. “What are you looking for?” I asked. I can be helpful. Sometimes. “Something interesting,” she said calmly. She’s not six feet tall so her hand was reaching up to manipulate the books on the top row....
by Brian | Mar 15, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Many of us drink gin and we are in a gin paradise: there is a generation of new gins being created in Europe and across this country. In Brooklyn, for example, there are little micro spots coming up with diverse and grand flavors, for example, Greenhook...
