June 2010
2 posts
La Marqueta Olvidada
So now that I have moved into my new borough, I decided it was time to explore the places I neglected while living on the island. First stop today was the Moore St. Market or better known as La Marqueta de Williamsburg. As I made my way through the neighborhood on foot, the scene screamed San Juan, but it also screamed forgotten. The market entrance is easy to miss, with its lack-luster sign,...
May 2010
4 posts
You Tell Me
ffffood:
nutritionista:
Which is the farm-fresh egg and which is the grocery store egg?
WatchChocolate Tete de Moine (Monk’s Head)-Typically an aged swiss cheese, this is the pistachio-chocolate dessert version. I was more enthralled with the device but the chocolate was delicious.
April 2010
1 post
Huck Huck Boom Boom Photographer Throwdown →
Rider:Billy Nielson
The third annual Island Lake Lodge Photo Shootout was wet and wild, with all types of weather. But everyone stepped up their game and used Island Lake’s super playful terrain to their advantge. Giddy Up!
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
10 posts
Dallas Green- Comin’ Home
Dumpster divers →
John Mackey and Whole Foods: newyorker.com →
series-of-contradictions:
After reading about Mackey, I definitely now consider Whole Foods a unfortunate necessary evil that I will try to avoid when possible.
Boycotted, 2 years and counting
December 2009
8 posts
Check it Out ! →
And months later, I’m spent!
5 xmas items under $50 for the at home chef
Theres two weeks left! They already have knives and the basics. Here are some gift ideas for the at home chef looking to step up their game:
1.Cast Iron Pan-must have in every kitchen- $20 and under-any online kitchen store
2.Benriner Japanese Mandolin Slicer-just watch the finger tips, please!!-$20
http://www.amazon.com/Kyocera-carbon-BN1-Benriner-Japanese/dp/B0000VZ57C
3. Cuisinart...
The Michael Pollan Jr Generation →
“Gather all your young foodies this Saturday and head toBrooklyn Kitchen Labs for an 11 a.m. free screening of“What’s on Your Plate?”This documentary produced and directed by Catherine Gund takes on the well-trodden terrain of food politics, but this time from the point of view of two 11-year-olds. Over the course of a year, Sadie and Safiyah try to make sense of New...
November 2009
16 posts
To the Chopping Block
Nationwide, turkeys are losing their heads. Its that time of year, families coming together at the table to enjoy a meal that Mr. Turkey honorable gave his head up to the guillotine for. But how honorable and more importantly, how healthy was your turkey’s life?
Owens Poultry Farm in Needham, Massachusetts, has been a family run business for 75 years. They provide fresh, live turkey,...
Keeping kids healthy! →
If you are in the Boston area and not a suscriber, get on the bus!
Mayer Hawthorne-Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t...
Beach Brunch Checklist
-bottle of white
-bottle of rose
-camembert
-dolcelatte
-morbier
-dorado ceviche
-baguettes
-fruit
-flying fish cakes
-Italian bon bons
-another bottle of white
-blankets, towels, sunscreen
-4 people ready to relax on a sunny saturday
-another bottle of rose
The Other Asian Fish Market
Korean food is hot(fig.+ lit.). Everything to do with Korean food, David Chang, MomoEmpire, BaoEmpire, Korean food trucks, are hot across the country. Even Paris thinks its hot, so it must be true. So whats the word from the motherland? Well, they don’t really pay attention to us, maybe in the north. But if you like the Korean food stateside, no surprise you’ll love it there.
One...
To eat or not to eat?
When planning a menu in an isolated geographic location, sometimes some rules have to broken. Despite your most earnest efforts to keep your menu seasonal and local, lack of product can lead to a creative disaster. I work quite often in Barbados, and have come to know all the purveyors and seasonal products of the island. This has taken time, but very key in menu creation for private chef work.
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Crunching the numbers on a vegan in a Hummer
rangerchic:
You want some petroleum with that Big Mac?
Journalist and food writer Michael Pollan broke down the hidden cost of America’s best-known burger on Saturday to an eager audience at the Poptech conference. He traced the Big Mac’s origins all the way back to the oil fields, used to make fertilizer that is crucial to the corn grown for cows in massive feeds lots.
“Our meat eating is one...
October 2009
31 posts
Comfort Food
Often during times of heartache and loss, we turn to food to bring us back to where we need to be. Today, my clients lost someone very special to them, and I felt they were in need of some food TLC. Something to bring them together, at the table, as family. I had found some great short-ribs at the market the previous day, and couldn’t think of a better way to spend the day cooking and...
Pretty Lights- Down the line
Where once date restaurants hewed to a certain... →
series-of-contradictions:
I think white tablecloth restaurants are a horrible place for a first date. It’s important to be yourself on the first date and if you are comfortable in that environment, then that’s a dealbreaker for me. Personally, I’m not that kind of guy and would make a horrible first impression in that arena. Give me refined street food, tapas, pinxtos, dim sum and...
The Year of the Horse
With work taking me to asia this past year, I was introduced to several things that I have always wanted to try and things I never knew I would love. Horse filled both these categories.
Despite the time I spent living in Europe, I never had the opportunity to try horse meat. Or maybe I just wasn’t ready at the time. After taking a private chef position in the Gobi Desert last Fall, I...
Climbing and Cannolis
Today was a perfect fall day in NYC. I headed over to Central Park to do some bouldering and grab a cannoli, one of my favorite things to do on a sunny day in the city. Ferrara has had its doors open in Little Italy since 1892, and with the kiosk location at Columbus Circle, its hard to resist.