Tag Archives: flavor I met the chicken we had for dinner. My good friends Pat and John used to raise chickens. They roamed around behind their house, and had a coop out back. Those chickens had a nice life, they ate table scraps (vegetarian only), spent their days in the sun, they ran away from the dogs, and […]  Last week I was watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate, and one of the chefs offered this gem: ‘The secret to our great food is that we use only the best ingredients’. Naturally my inner sarcastic smart-ass who I’ve mainly learned to silence (mainly) had quite a bit to say about that! Starting with […]  I don’t consider myself a great cook, but I try to make great meals. I have been trained so I understand technique and cooking methods, and am not afraid or intimidated by recipes, but like art school, or music conservatories, culinary school can teach you technique, but no one can teach you to be talented. […]  Poor maligned meatloaf! How many people hear the word, and turn up their noses and decry their hatred for it. Yet those same people can tell you where you can get the best meatballs, they love paté and kofta, so what’s the deal about meatloaf? Maybe when you were growing up your mom (or […]  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 […] |
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