My dear friends, I’m asking you to forgive me for your bruised buttocks. I think i got a little carried-away with all that spanking in my last post. Today, in an effort to redeem myself… i am giving away a free cookbook!
You will have to wait until the end of this post to find out [...]

(This may look like a tomato but it’s in fact the incarnation of the 127th Buddha, yes really!)
Heirloom tomatoes stand-out of the crowd for their so-called ugliness. They also stand out from the other mass-produced automatoes because they appear to have a soul. That sweet expression of compassion tinged with sorrow carved onto their [...]

Big Bossman was quite chatty and pleasant today, he even brought some beautiful zuchinni blossoms from his garden in the Hamptons. Too bad such nice behavior is considered extremely suspect in the private chef world. A boss too friendly should give you the willies. That’s the rule. Exactly 18 seconds later he asked if i [...]

I am a self-confessed fig freak to the point i count the days every year until i’m able to put my hands on these babies. Today mes amis, was my lucky day at the market.
It must be the childhood memories associated with figs that makes me love them so much. Memories that take me back [...]

Warning bacon lovers: The word ‘bacon’ was used 22 times in this post. Actually it’s 24 times now. Some people have been known to enter a trance at the repeated sound of bacon (25 times). Read at your own risk.
After indulging on everything pork this week-end i wanted to redeem myself and prepare something quick [...]

I can’t move. Maybe i went a little overboard with the amount of food and beer i ingurgitated this afternoon. I think i single-handedly put pig on the list of species at risk of extinction today but you know, nothing will get in between the zen-man and his meat, not even temperatures flirting with 100′F [...]

I witnessed a rare phenomena in my kitchen tonight that might prove that cooking and space-travel have in fact a lot in common. There was a black-out at sunset in my neighborhood that literally caused a lemon cake eclipse. Yup, a goddamn eclipse in my kitchen man! After the lights went-out and before my world [...]