Joel Robuchon appeared on Top Chef recently and I had a sudden heightened understanding of something that's nagged at me for a while. I put this in a comments thread on facebook, but I wanted to capture it here in one place ( Read more... )

1/2 c red miso
1 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp sesame oil
2 stalks celery
1 tomato
1 tbsp soy sauce
4 oz. apple sauce
Juice from half a lemon
1/4 c + 2 tbsp rice vinegar

Put in a reliable blender and make smooth (I of course use the VITA MIX 3600!!). The result? A very very good salad dressing in the style of that seemingly ubiquitous dressing you get at ( Read more... )

One of my prized cookbook possessions is by the old Minneapolis Star food and culture writer Will Jones. As far as I can ascertain, Jones is the one who really brought the concept of urban (and urbane) food and entertainment writing to Minneapolis, way back in the 50s and 60s (starting as early as the late 40s maybe? the internet has a paucity of ( Read more... )

When I was in high school (and into early part of college) I endeavored to work the omega symbol into my personal branding (you know, without being a DJ or getting into BBS and/or internet, it's actually pretty hard to create your own nickname in this world, unless you work for it intentionally). Jon O always worked pretty well, but once I learned ( Read more... )

I'm a raw milk enthusiast as many of you may know. The taste of raw milk is so much more complete than the taste of homogenized and pasteurized milk. I mean, it's whole, for one thing (you wouldn't want raw skim eww) which means there's cream. And for another... oh it's bliss! Bliss! It tastes like it came from a place you know? On my recent trip ( Read more... )

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cocktail blogs being all the rage now, I have been attending to their contributions with interest. this has been a good summer for cocktails, i tell you what. So anyway, I've finally gone ahead and plunged in to working out my own recipes. Here's one I made that I think has legs; let's call it the Northwoods Sling or perhaps the Smokehouse Sling ( Read more... )

I'd never heard of Noka before, but a writer at the Dallas/Fort Worth site "Dallasfood.org" just did what has to be the best commercial bullshit takedown I've ever read in which these Noka fools are exposed as con artists. I don't know if the article is true, but this person was very thorough in their research and since it's public, could very ( Read more... )

If there's any justice in the world, Joel Salatin would blow your freaking mind.
"Until we create agricultural paradigms that will romance the next generation into them we're wasting our time..." (emphasis mine. this is from him speaking at a conference - audio linkHe gets $4 per dozen for his eggs and doesn't use tractors or fertilizer ( Read more... )