Beer fest!!!

31Mar10

Any excuse to expand the palate right? I made it to the spring craft beer festival at Nassau coliseum. The beer selection was incredible. Unlike most wine tastings the crowd was a little more interested in libating on the magnificent beer but nonetheless most brewers came with interesting and exciting stuff. There were a couple [...]

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Jamie’s Food Revolution

27Mar10

I have followed Jamie’s career for quite a while now. Show Website As a young cook I gravitated to learning more about fine cuisine, innovating techniques and the ever long search for an incredible new flavor combination. At some point I began falling in love with food, not as a color wheel to express my [...]

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Insert the Funk, Thai Style

24Mar10

From thai steak I remember my first taste of south pacific flavors.  A completely basic Tom Ka Gai soup was almost more than I could handle.  Soup for me was the obvious, chicken, and that was the end of it.  Sure there were aromatics, celery, carrot, but nothing so punchy as to really challenge my [...]

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Brainstorm…ing

17Mar10

Exploding with ideas. Need To write them down. Nite taking is not something that comes naturally to me but is a skill that I have come to rely on

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Snapperhead ipa and leffe blonde

15Mar10

Tasting through some new beers and old favorites. Beer holds a very special place in my heart and while wine is a strong new passion, no beverage holds a candle to a nice brew on a muggy summer day. Snapperhead is a hoppy beast from a company called butternuts beer and ale currently brewing in [...]

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Glass of wine and inspiration

15Mar10

Spending a Sunday afternoon having a great glass of gruner and writing menus. Currently thumbing through el bulli 1998-2002 and culinary artistry.

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Cooking in Feb

01Mar10

Just a couple of pics from the past month that I particularly liked. Don’t know what my next move is yet but I’m cooking some great food recently and having a blast doing it. *And as a side note, a ton a prayers for everyone in Chile.  Miss you guys and hope you recover as [...]

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