food writing

  • We all go nuts…

    We all go nuts…

    I’m preparing multiple special events for next week (breakfasts and dinners). For two days this week that has meant making bofrot (pronounced “boh-froot”), a Ghanian donut. Well, in my mind they’re a donut. Other chefs have called them fritters, dough balls, and beignet. Call them what you will, I’m still the guy making a little

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  • New York, New York

    New York, New York

    Photos from last week’s trip to Poughkeepsie, Long Island, and Manhattan. Poughkeepsie reminded me of Staunton or Charlottesville. The Hudson Valley is a beautiful, lush place with wonderful food. The double chocolate croissant at Anna et Pierre was poetry. The Quattro Falso at Rossi and Sons was too good to stop eating, and their cannoli

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  • Harvest

    Harvest

    This is the first week we’ve been able to harvest and use our tarragon. We’ve been growing this particular herb now for 2 years. It dies down in winter to become a wooden tangle if not trimmed back. In the spring and summer it grows aggressively, like anything bittersweet should. I never get tired of

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  • Fine Dining

    This is all just a practice. A menu based on tonight’s dinner. I’m always wishing I had the job of writing my own menus. Of presenting food I’ve made to droves of hungry gatherers. Of knowing every dimension of what satisfaction really means: how it reads, how it tastes, how it feels. So I’m writing

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