Mise En Place
Brother Arnold weeding the corn field This weeks Mise En Place is from the opposite end of the culinary spectrum than what I’ve put up recently. When you shop locally for the food you bring to your...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Cheezus – Shelburne Farms
Chef Matt Jennings - The Prophet of Passion , inside Jasper Hill Cellars There are at least a quarter of a million distinct English words according the Oxford English Dictionary online, and many of...
View ArticleMise En Place – France
The French Waiter at the Effile Tower I lived in France for a year after high school as an AFS student, and returned there for a semester abroad program during college. So a number of years back when...
View ArticleFresh Pond Seafood Redux
A painting of the original location inside the new place In West Cambridge along Route 16, a ramshackle blue building with lobster pots strewn about stood as an icon for many since the 1970′s. Long...
View ArticleThe Boston Shaker – Your Classic Cocktail Nexus
Classic Cocktails are the "new black" these days Classic cocktails are the rage and at most bars and restaurants, you are confronted with lists of drinks longer than your arm with histories older than...
View ArticlePower Struggles in the Kitchen
Recently the car company Nissan came out with a very clever advertisement for their new totally electric car named the Leaf, that asks the viewer “What if everything ran on gas?” This vehicle is...
View ArticleBelle’s Dockside
You can't beat the view I spent this past weekend in Newport, Rhode Island doing some freelance work shooting for The Newport Restaurant Group. I’ve been working with NRG for a number of years now, and...
View ArticleGot Shrimp?
Pandalus borealis is a species of shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and often called Maine Shrimp or Northern Shrimp. There’s been an uptick of Chef chatter on places like Facebook and Twitter...
View ArticleEngine 9′s Superbowl
Firefighter John Pagnani backs Engine 9 into quarters “CIVILIAN IN QUARTERS …” echoed through out the cavernous truck bay and expansive headquarters of Engine 9 and Ladder 2 in East Boston, yesterday,...
View ArticleA new day … a new future
Birthday Rainbow on my new bamboo rod I turned 48 today … quickly moving toward the other side of a half century makes me think about the last 25 years or so. Despite the horrors we’ve seen in the last...
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