A cold slice of crispy, fresh garden lettuce, a chilled chalet of grassy, spicy IPA, a few miniature pickles thrown on the plate — all an accompaniment to the main event: meat and skin from pigs feet set in its own jelly. It has many names – Brawn, Head Cheese, Farmhouse Brawn, or Fromage de [...]
Where does your food come from? Do you know, really? There are still so many people in the dark about this. When you speak of slaughterhouses, kill plants, the real truth behind the food we eat, they turn their heads. They don’t want the truth, it seems. I often wonder if they think that we [...]
I don’t know how you got your year started, but I started mine off with a real bang. A simple new years dinner with Peter & Jo at Bouchon in Beverly Hills — sounds simple enough. Except whenever Jo’s involved, unexpected things happen. Like meeting Chef Thomas Keller, in his kitchen, right in the middle [...]
