Archive for February, 2010

“instigating the food fight of our lives”

So. I’ve been stewing lately with a tough RANT to spill.
I don’t want it to come across negative. I’ve been agonizing over how to deliver it. I feel like I have been a fool for many years. I feel like I have been in a coma. A capitalistic coma, denial and all. What I thought [...]

Rant Poem – what it means to be chef

Got a RANT stuck in my teeth. This one might need a few stuzzicadenti. Or a nice slap in the face/kick in the ass before I spill…
You start the set up.
Everything MUST be perfect.
Everything MUST be in the exact same place for the DANCE, for the DANCE is soon. You push hard.
You remember every mistake [...]

Rants – The world will be flat again, and it’s coming soon

Been thinking a lot this evening.
Been talking a lot too tonight.
How can we change the fact that our truly great leaders want nothing to do with leading this country?
The biggest fear brought on by the internet age is that soon EVERYONE will have a voice. Soon EVERYONE will vote. We are witnessing what happens when [...]

My handwritten famous White Ragu method (adaptable) feel free to ask questions…

White Truffle Porn

Don’t you wish you were with me for this?
“Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.” -Brillat-Savarin

Rants. Dammit. Is corporate food “our cuisine”?

Think about what “our” most important cuisine is.
REALLY think bout that.
Because l’d argue that what we as a society feed the masses IS.
So follow me here…
If our most important cuisine is what we feed the masses then that’s basically what we give the poor and middle class.
I would argue that’s our fast food.
Our fast food [...]

Waging A Personal Revolution, and Food Inc.

Just watched “Food Inc.” for the first time. Nice to see I’m not the only one RANTING about this shit. It’s disgusting what has happened to our cuisine. Our government will NOT solve any of this for us. Only we can. Best part of the film was the end quotes. We vote for crap food [...]

rants – Why/How this American cuisine?

So food, glorious food.
Cuisine: a manner or style of preparing food. Pretty simple definition but what is it really and how does it come about? What affects the style or manner of preparing food? Well for one what’s available or what “grows” near that area. So in some instances when the area or land isn’t [...]