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Dialogues with Silence: What's The Recipe? (Our Hunger For Cookbooks)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009The chef’s cookbook from the fancy place has been superseded by the chef’s cookbook from the fancy place without the fancy-place food. David Waltuck, of the ever to be mourned Chanterelle, started this trend with his “Staff Meals,” and now we … The simplicity is in part a reaction to the cult of complexity of Spain’s Ferran Adrià school of molecular cooks, with their cucumber foam and powdered octopus. Reformations make counterreformations as surely as right makes left; …
Raw Vegan Lunch Adventure | BigSisLilSis
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Sometimes we go for a posh girlie lunch at a fancy place, like Stephan Pyles or Fearing’s at the Ritz Carlton, and other times it’s a cheap delicious lunch at Cafe Brazil. This week, we went raw vegan! The “we” is me; a 15-year vegetarian/3 -week vegan, … I don’t want to say where we went since the restaurant was having a bad day: their chef quit, they were short-handed, and they were having a sewage issue. Probably not the day to give them a fair review! …
