Category Archives: making peace with food I am a little ashamed and need to unburden myself; I bought caponata, in a jar. I can make it, I have made it, in fact I’ve posted a recipe for it on this blog; a slow cooker caponata. Writing a food blog comes with a certain amount of pressure (albeit internal) to make things rather than buy […]  Travel and food, especially new food have always been intertwined for me. When I embarked on a yoga retreat to Bali I was excited about eating Indonesian food, though I wasn’t quite sure what that would be. The only Indonesian food I’d heard of was rijstaffel, which is really Dutch. Before the trip, as part of […]  Last week I mentioned the rotisserie chicken throwdown that didn’t happen. Good news; in a rescheduled event the chicken fight took place, and the results were not quite what I expected. Initially my intent was to do a blind taste test, but that didn’t happen. Nonetheless, we forged ahead and did our best to do […]  Today I begin year three of The Chef’s Last Diet. When I began writing I had big dreams of what this blog would become. I imagined thousands, not dozens of people reading the quality content I’d be creating. I started planning my cookbook, and practicing for my appearance on the Today show, explaining to germaphobe […] If you can learn how to cook, you can learn how to do anything. How do you learn? Just like anything else, by doing it over and over, all the time. To cook you will need just a few things, but you will need all of them, all the time. You will never reach the end, you will […] |
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