Here’s a list of what I’m reading right now. Eating India, Chitrita Banerji. Will Write for Food, Dianne Jacob.. Julie & Julia, Julie Powell. The Professional Chef’s Knife Kit, Culinary Institute of America. Live to Cook, Michael Symon. This is...
Curry: A tale of cooks & conquerors by Lizzie Collingham is my current quest to further culinary knowledge. I’ve read a fourth of the book and learned more history then I was taught in high school about other countries. But I grew up in the West, in America,...
I have stepped into the grand adventure of teaching myself how to cook the cuisine of the subcontinent India. It is not an easy task, and involves hours of research, reading, and learning techniques in the kitchen. Mostly it is a language barrier. During the research...
I am currently reading A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat. I was on a hunt for anthropological/archeological information about food and how food traveled through the ancient world. I found it. This is the Food Bible, written published in 1988, and revised...
I was reminded today why I cook, why I work in the food industry, and what is important about this career. I watched a documentary called How to cook your life, it featured Edward Epse Brown, a Buddhist Monk Master and Chef, author of The Tassajara Bread Book,...
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