Posts tagged: cooking

& Eggs According to Gordon Ramsay">Steak & Eggs According to Gordon Ramsay

I like food. I like food enough that just a few days ago, I found myself dream­ing about food on my sub­way ride back home after work. Yes, I dream about food. Cook­ing some­thing nice at home is one of life’s lit­tle plea­sures, I think. Here are two quick lit­tle videos, one on scram­bled eggs, one on […]

Saturday February 27th, 2010 in , , , , , | Comments Off

Get Multiple Viewpoints from Multiple Cookbooks

It has always been obvi­ous to me, but every once in a while I get the ques­tion, “Why have so many Japanese/Italian/French/Chinese/Indian/Caribbean/whatever cook­books?  You just need one of each type, right?” Maybe you would ask me the same thing. My answer is sim­ple. You get bet­ter advice and bet­ter food when you can con­sult different […]

Sunday February 14th, 2010 in , , | Comments Off

Gyuto Sizes: Gotta Have ‘Em All!

Some things don’t change much with age. I remem­ber once when I was a child, and my par­ents had just bought me a new Trans­former, there was a brochure that showed all the other mod­els that then existed in the world of Trans­form­ers.  It was a pretty pal­try list.  There were maybe a dozen dif­fer­ent characters. […]

Saturday February 13th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

It’s True: Japanese Cooking Knives will Spoil You

I finally real­ized yes­ter­day that I have been per­ma­nently spoiled by my Japan­ese cook­ing knives.  I can’t look at a Ger­man knife quite the same way ever again.  Not that it’s about the look, it’s about the feel. For now, I’m going to limit myself to the chef’s knife.  This knife is the core of many […]

Saturday January 16th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

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