Instead of burgers, why not offer kofta kebab for "staff meal?" Sometimes a bit of extra flare or puffy pita can pop the pleasure yearnings for a hungry staff. Kofta is a higher quality street food. Topped by a salad of fresh chickpeas, cucumber, tomatoes and more, it...
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Home Sourdough
Just purchased the new Brod & Taylor Home for sourdough which is to maintain your schedule and temperature for your sourdough. First efforts were tricky and the dough or maybe sourdough didn't quite get the difference of how I used to maintain my starter in the...
The Modern
Celebrating my recent birthday on a Saturday afternoon, my wife brought me to one of the places where I started my career, the "members' only dining room " at New York's Museum of Modern Art. I had been back a few years ago at The Modern, the new public restaurant...
Gigot D’Aubergine
Tasked with making a simple dinner that was primarily plant-based, I revisited a dish from one of my visits to Turkey. Actually, it was one of my creations, inspired while working in the kitchen of Dilara, my host when I visited Istanbul several summers ago. It...
Nougat
Nougat is a chewy nut confection with roots back in the Roman Empire, only more likely first crafted in what is now Turkey and Greece rather than Italy. In my early days as a pastry cook, I remember wanting to master this challenging mixture of hot sugar and honey...
Gai-lan
I have always loved green vegetables, like Gai-lan, a type of Chinese broccoli found in Asian food markets. It works wonderfully in scrumptious preparations steamed or stir fried. Whereas spinach also a native of Asia goes simply in a dish like Goma Ae, a...
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