Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Is it my imagination or is the opening montage getting longer? The show itself, diving into episode 3, begins at the 3:45 mark. That’s longer than the Game of Thrones opening sequence. And far less interesting. Apparently feeling the need to “get out in the countryside”, the show takes us to Gral. Rodriguez, a suburban… Read More MasterChef Round 3 – The Oxymoron of World Class Lasagna
We’re on to Episode 2, and thankfully, unlike the first season, we’re already full on into the competition. Twenty contestants – Diego, Patricia, Sol, Alejo, Matías, Mercedes, Jacinto, Alan, Lia, Francisco, Julia D, Martín, María, Nadia, Juan Pablo, Claudia, Simone, Mariana, Julia N, Sebastián – glare at the camera during the opening montage, each after… Read More MasterChef Round 2 – Eggs Benedict? STFU.
[I initially started out writing these reviews for ComoSur, but the site has, unfortunately, had to suspend operations. So, although the first few of these will be a bit behind schedule, I thought I’d move them here to the blog and then get them on track with the show. I also promise to cut down… Read More Masterchef Returns to Argentina
Although I’m not particularly into the world of molecular gastronomy or modernist cooking, it’s still an interest on the level of intellectual curiosity. I’ve said before, I have no doubt that if I was a young chef coming up now, I’d be totally into it – I used to love science experiments and all that… Read More An Afternoon of This
For those who missed Shari Bayer’s All in the Industry podcast yesterday, we got her nod for the Solo Dining segment. We’re almost at the end of the show (the 40 minute mark), but the whole thing is well worth listening to! You can also add her show to your lineup on Stitcher or iTunes… Read More On the Air
In rapid succession eleven days ago, we fired off our ingredient choices – ginger from Jennifer, lamb from Kevin, blue cheese from me. Yes, Kevin picked lamb before, but that was a year ago, let’s see what we can do with it this time around. Jennifer doesn’t like blue cheese she informs us. Embrace the… Read More On the Lamb
We managed to pull it off. It was the most uncoordinated and contentious effort so far in our online cooking challenge series. Days before the event Jenn fired off that she’d already picked her ingredient, the humble avocado. Rather than doing a more or less simultaneous reveal of food stuffs, Kevin and I now found… Read More Cookery from the Isle of the Seven Cities
I get asked, a lot, for “coaching” or whatever the current buzzword is on opening a closed door restaurant. While it’s hard to distill the nearly 10 years of Casa S and all the dinners I used to do in NYC, plus a couple of decades of restaurant experience, down to anything that resembles the… Read More You Think You Deserve a Tip? Here’s a Tip…