Sabino Spadaccino got on my radar when I started following his blog Aquasale. Then we followed each others Instagram post. Now he's come to Stir the Pots for an interview. How did you discover you loved food? I think I have always loved food, I've been...
Certain food have short seasons. Like ramps, for example. But what to do after the season with such vegetables? Try fermentation or pickling. Below are various of my efforts in pickling, including Persian cucumbers, cabbage, turnips,and kohlrabi choux croute. Great...
Real men don't eat quiche? I don't even know if they're trendy anymore and I don't care. I don't think I'll ever dislike them, simple and delicious they're a comfort food and in my DNA! Pâte brisée (makes one large tart, or about 15 small...
The rabbit pâté I sell on my menu at work is popular. Perhaps because it's studded with foie gras and truffles. While making a recent batch I had a bit left over. Lacking a free container, I used a strawberry jam jar for lack of a mason...
My buddy Domenico, a zen teacher of cucina reale Italiana, often scolds me for my periodic lapses in understanding semantic and ingredient differences. Sort of like my editor Jonathan scolds me for writing three paragraphs when three sentences and a few...
Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a post-church ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare? By eliminating...
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