by Brian | Mar 6, 2019 | Recipes
Vegetables. For some people this is a four-letter four word. People just don’t like them. In part, it may be that many veggies include a component of bitter flavor and our genes are programmed to avoid bitter things. They can be poisonous. But carrots?...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You will love this cookbook. Love it. Particularly if you are camping. But if you never set foot outdoors, ever, you still want the charming and flavor intense recipes in this book. Authors Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson won an IACP award for their earlier book The...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2019 | Recipes
As soon as I saw this recipe, I jumped on it. Yeah, it is cold and snowing and potato salad is only for the heat of the Fourth of July but you want to taste this now. It’s not quite you Mom’s potato salad. There are lentils. And maple syrup and capers and...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Just outside of Copenhagen, there is the world-famous restaurant Noma. It’s a castle of both great food preparation and great recipe development. In this massive volume, 450 pages, Noma give us perspective on the role of fermentation in cooking. Oh, you don’t...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2019 | Dessert Digest
Ordinarily, an exceptional dessert takes some effort. Surely some time. Except, I think, for this Italian classic: tiramisu. It is a snap to prepare and, if you have just some basic artistic/architectural skills, you can make it gloriously beautiful. We serve...
