by Brian | Aug 10, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you don’t know the name Kim Haasarud, and if you love cocktails, you are so missing out. Kim is founder of Liquid Architecture, a consulting firm that creates specialty cocktails for clients around the world. Clients like the Four Seasons Maui and Wyndham...
by Brian | Aug 10, 2016 | Recipes
If I say “fricassee” then you will say “chicken.” What else is there? Ah, so many things. In Louisiana Real and Rustic, brilliant chef Emeril Lagasse offers fricassee many ways. There is chicken, to be sure, but also beef and this trout...
by Brian | Aug 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
WARNING: Do not get this rub in your eye. Be careful. Yes, you will likely taste test with your finger. Just wash it. Twice. This rub, from Louisiana Real and Rustic by Emeril Legasse, is used in many of the recipes in this landmark book. I did make it and I did taste...
by Brian | Aug 5, 2016 | Recipes
Wednesday I did a cookbook review for The Slanted Door, a book featuring the recipes of Charles Phan and his marvelous San Francisco restaurant. The restaurant, a mecca from the day it opened for twenty years, offers Charles’ very refined blend of his native...
by Brian | Aug 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
This week's Throwback Thursday Recipe is from a few years back at this time of year. It was a good summer for tomatoes, as is this one. I was in an upscale cheese store in Midtown. A great store we know well. A jar labeled “Tomato Jam” caught my eye. I...
