Tag Archives: cooking Gastronomy 101 was the first class I encountered when I got to culinary school. We started out in the classroom, much to the dismay of many of my classmates who were impatient young men right out of high school, and eager to start cooking. We had a full six weeks of classes ranging in topics […] I look back on my Diner daze days with some degree of disbelief. Diners are an integral part of the American landscape, as well as the American experience. Diners in their various forms have waxed and waned in their popularity over the past hundred plus years and I, like many others was swept up in […]  The term salad days has nothing to do with weather, or season, but I think it should. Salad days seems as least as good a description of oppressive heat as Dog Days of Summer, and right now these days feel about as salad-y as any. Like most of the country, it’s way too hot […]  I’m over bacon! I I love it as much as anyone, but I am getting tired of it. It is everywhere, it is in everything, and as much as I love it, I don’t want to eat it all the time! You may not agree, but I think bacon is the new black, it has […]  In which I indulge in a weekend long smoke a thon… Since getting my smoker I have smoked the following: chicken, ribs, corn, lobster, mozzarella, and salmon. Some things have been better than others, but all of it has been good. Yesterday my friend Stef came over and I helped her get her blog set […] |
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