mirepoix

An old instructor of mine once said, “give any Chef enough paper and they’ll kill themselves with it,” referring to the somewhat pathological drive of many great cooks to become mediocre cook book writers. Well, in this case it’s not paper but electrons, and not a cookbook. Instead, Laurent Gras of L2O in Chicago gives [...]

A dear friend (and she’s an insanely good chef, too) gave me a starter for Amish Friendship Bread a while ago, and since then I have been nurturing, feeding, and sharing the wealth. But it got me thinking – a tradition that verifiably (of course there’s ambiguity) started in 1999 at a Burning Man bake-off [...]