Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Otis the Pup & Chicken Processing
Time to do some weeding. This blog is seriously overgrown. After two years of barely having enough time to respond to email let alone cleanse the ridiculous spam… Read More »
Sweet!
Year in review: I packed up my stuff from New York and drove out to San Francisco. Opened (or re-opened) three restaurants. Two of which could really go… Read More »
Echo Valley Ranch Rules
I jump in the jeep and peel off down the coastal Highway One towards Santa Cruz. Radio blaring, hair stinging my eyes with the wind whipping it every… Read More »
Circa, A California Bistro!
To walk into a pre-established restaurant and change a menu top to bottom that has been in existence since before the dinosaurs trampled the earth and deliver a… Read More »
Savoring the Last Bite and Swallowing Hard
I know you know that when I don’t write a blog post for two months or longer that things are either going really well or… Let’s cut to… Read More »
Never A Dull Moment in the Kitchen
Oh dear Lord, are you kidding me? I’ve got to have a quarter in here somewhere to feed the meter. Please God let there be a nickel hidden… Read More »
Le Club Cooks!
I did not fall off a cliff. It might appear that way considering my last post ended somewhere in Alabama. But I made it through Texas, New Mexico,… Read More »
Murder & Redemption in Sweet Home Alabama
There is a reason that redemption comes after murder. I suppose you could redeem yourself first and murder after, but that’s just not the natural order of things…… Read More »
Fried Bologna is Back: From New York to North Carolina
It’s Saturday and Nico a friend from work who has been given a full weekend away from the hot line, comes to help me pack up my NYC… Read More »
Goodbye New York hello San Francisco!
Have you heard of the ‘saying goodbye curse’? It goes like this: you live in a city for two years and think it’s kinda cool and suddenly it… Read More »
The Ending Chapter And the Beginning of a Restaurant
This has been the most insane two weeks of my life. Fourteen days ago I was unsure of how I was going to buy groceries. Now I still… Read More »
Voici! The New Executive Chef at Michel Rostang in Paris
Introducing Nicholas Beaumann, the new Executive Chef at the two Michelin star restaurant Michel Rostang in Paris! Nicholas did his apprenticeship at Michel Rostang after culinary school and… Read More »
