Alright, here it is. My 30th Birthday.
I find that so-called big birthdays like this take the looking glass of perspective, slip it into a linen sack, and bash it into a million kaleidoscopic shards.
In the past 15 years I have…
Had my first kiss, My driver’s license, My first car, Graduated High School, My first apartment, [...]
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I need to restock (pardon the pun) my supply of Demi-Glace, so last night I made up a 13 quart batch of beef stock. Although I am as live-and-let-live as they come, It’s times like these where I really wish I could grab America up off the couch by her belt buckle, and scold [...]
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“You’re a chef? Wow!!! Where’d you go to culinary school?”
This is a question that I hear almost daily: “Are you a chef?” My answer is a disappointing, “I don’t know”. Chef is a shortened form of the French, chef de cuisine (lit. “Head of the Kitchen”) with Chef being rooted in Latin, meaning Chief. Somehow [...]
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