Tag Archives: love to cook 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. […]  Last week I talked about rediscovering an old copy of the Settlement Cookbook that has been in my possession for many years. My copy is from 1931, the original having been published in 1901. The book was compiled and published by Elizabeth Kander. My copy is in very bad shape, the pages have separated from […]  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 […] |
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