July 31, 2009
The NYTimes Magazine has an article about cooking or, more accurately, how that act has is vanishing from American homes. It addresses the causes of that transformation, from pragmatic time constraints and demographic shifts to the technological (this excerpt stuck strongly in my mind): “Here’s an analogy,” Balzer said. “A hundred years ago, chicken for [...]
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May 29, 2009
Tom Valenti, the world's greatest chef, is featured in a June 8 Forbes article. The author spent a day with Tom in upstate New York, hunting/gathering ingredients for a home-caught, home-cooked but nonetheless gourmet meal. Everything down to the spring water was collected in the wild (with the exception, I assume, of the French pinot blanc). [...]
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