Originally Posted: 04 Nov 2009 12:47 AM PST I, like many chefs, have always had a bittersweet anticipation of the holidays. That stretch from Thanksgiving through New Years is filled with holiday parties, special dinners, romantic dates, midnight kisses and lots and lots of alcohol. Unfortunately, not so much for myself or my chef brethren. We are the ones who…
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Originally Posted: 11 Nov 2009 01:29 AM PST Every chef has one. For some, the dish may have evolved from something simple. For others, the signature dish was carefully designed, tested and executed. Either way, it is this dish that shows where the true heart and soul of a chef lies. Is he a master tinkerer with a wildy difficult…
It’s all about the content and lately, I feel, mine has been sorely lacking. My original idea was to do a post a week. I had my weekend to shop and prepare something that we could eat as a family, at least that’s what I thought. The problem is, when I reformatted my site and began down this new road,…
From dishwasher to Executive Chef, it was a 14 year journey of the ins and outs of the restaurant business. In those 14 years, I had seen everything, and I mean everything, from watching my waitstaff snort coke off the rim of a dirty toilet seat at one restaurant to sweating my nuts off in the galley of the Beard…