Over the last few years, it seems like more and more chefs feel the need to add long bios showing the highs and lows of their life, before recounting their success opening a restaurant, before they get to the parade of recipes. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t; mostly it depends on how interested one is in the chef.The Toro Bravo Cookbook is one example. This is … [Read more...] about Book Review – The Toro Bravo Cookbook
Food Writing Archive
This category could be about anything having to do with food: Food Haiku, Limericks, Contests, Essays, Trips down memory line, musings about life... whatever strikes my fancy, and doesn't fit into the other categories
Interview: Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd
This is the third in a series of interviews that first appeared in About Face Magazine by Chris Angelus of the terrific Portland Food Adventures. My thanks to About FaceIf Portland were to elect a culinary ambassador, Jason Francis French would be high in the running. He wouldn’t necessarily be appointed for his own exceptional cooking skills, nor his notoriety as a … [Read more...] about Interview: Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd
Making Tonic Water from Scratch – My Descent into Madness
Updated July 2024. For me, this is the time of year for a good gin & tonic, and judging by the shortage of tonic waters at the local grocery stores right now, I'm not the only one who thinks so. I thought it would be a good time to update the recipe in this article from July 2014. Don't want to make your own? I have our ratings of commercial tonic waters, which you can read … [Read more...] about Making Tonic Water from Scratch – My Descent into Madness
Book Review: The Way We Ate: 100 Chefs Celebrate a Century at the American Table
My first subscription to a food magazine (1972) wasn't Gourmet, but of a publication called 'Sphere' which went on to be Cuisine. I didn't know it was a Betty Crocker magazine at the time, I only knew that it offered great recipes, taking me to countries I could only dream of at the time. Reading this cookbook was a lovely reminder of the many recipes shared, dinner with … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Way We Ate: 100 Chefs Celebrate a Century at the American Table
Interview: John Gorham – Firing on All Cylinders
This is the second in a series of interviews which first appeared in About Face Magazine by Chris Angelus of the terrific Portland Food Adventures.Maybe it’s an ego thing, but I take this whole Portland thing seriously. So, as it so often does, when the query comes from people who have a couple of days to grab some Portland and run, I am always proud to make people aware … [Read more...] about Interview: John Gorham – Firing on All Cylinders