Category Archives: Family Do you ever wonder what they eat in heaven? I love the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life. It is set in Judgement City, a place somewhere between life, and wherever you are headed next. The two main characters Julia and Daniel meet there, and though their days are spent literally defending the choices they […]  One year ago today I sat down and composed my first blog post for The Chef’s Last Diet. I have always dreamed of writing, and suddenly I had the time and the motivation to get started. I had just read Gary Vernaychuk’s book Crush It, on the recommendation of a friend, and then had a […]  Many years ago I was catering a party and one of the appetizers I had planned to make was samosas. I was following a recipe and ended up with a lot of extra filling, and not much time, so I defrosted some won ton wrappers I had and used those instead of the dough I […]  When you’re cooking one of the things you should be paying attention to, but may not be, are the bubbles. When I learned to make scrambled eggs, and I mean as a kid, not when I was in culinary school, where making scrambled eggs is a whole other thing, but when my dad was showing […]  When kids (or adults) are eating something for the first time ‘what does it taste like?’ is the inevitable question, and ‘Tastes like chicken’ often the response . A few years ago I read a humorous article in which the author said when he used that response with his daughter, she asked ‘So what does […] |
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