Archive for June, 2010
Okay, yea. Split Pea Soup is not a summer thing. But you know what is? Bacon, cooked into crispy little lardons, sprinkled over almost everything. Coupled with morning Berkeley fog and unpredictable June summers, Split Pea Soup was and is perfect for late June. And, thanks to Thomas Keller and Ad Hoc, it was surprisingly [...]
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Salade Lyonnaise.
Restraint is not necessarily a strong suit of mine. Hence this slab of bacon. Most would feel a little unease upon purchasing a pound of slab bacon, for their own personal consumption. While, yes, I considered the consequences of a pound of bacon, most of the images and scenarios I imagined were not of heart [...]
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There were two things about this tart that I immediately disliked when I read the recipe. The first, and probably most important, is that I hate fruit. Hate is, yes, a strong word that really should be reserved for enemies and evildoers, but I’ll just come out and repeat it. I hate fruit. For me, [...]
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It is hard to improve a cup of coffee. A good cup of coffee, let’s be clear, is strong, well-rounded, opaque in the mug, and rarely with a bitter finish. It has a taste, a thickness, and is much more than brewed water. So, to clarify, a good cup of coffee, just like a great [...]
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Sweet Tea.
Sweet Tea is a good thing. There really isn’t much to say about, except that it is, truly, a good thing. What it is, exactly, is iced black tea that is brewed in sweetened water. But for some reason, it’s more. As with most things related to slow-moving, entirely good-for-you culture, Sweet Tea originated in [...]
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Chocolate Pulla.
When things come in groups, especially ingredients, I often find that using just one component of the group leaves the others a little dejected. So while, yes, this does fall under the category of personification of ingredients and the occasional normal chat—or two—one may have with their foodstuffs, I’d like to submit that it’s really [...]
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