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My name isn’t exactly common. In most cases I am able to get jluster as my username. There’s one other Jonas Luster in the world, and he’s 87 and in Sweden. Yet, gmail, oh faithful mail delivery and reading tool of mine, regularly reminds me that there are some others out there who share that [...]

I love Texas. Everyone seems so concerned about telling Facebook or Twitter they’re going on vacation. Not me. “Yo, Dave, I’m outta town for a few weeks. You see anyone on my land, shoot ‘em” “Ayupp” Don’t I love it when things are uncomplicated.

Misha watches me at home and in the restaurant cooking. In his play area he has a few pots and pans and plastic tools. Yesterday I caught him playing “daddy”, stirring a pot vigorously while cursing at some invisible dude next to him, shaking his fist and all. I am so extremely proud of my [...]

There was a time, when “Master” meant something. In kitchen terms it meant you’d spent three years as an apprentice under an old Master, five years as a Journeyman working your way through kitchens, starting from the bottom every time, advancing not in status but – if you were lucky – in your kitchen’s status. [...]

Figured this is JUST the picture to post this week. Chuckwagon recipes and the menu for our Steampunk Supper coming up as soon as I recover from the past five days of work.

A “thank you”. CBS5 local blogs blogger Brittney Gilbert is moving on. She was the blogger behind one of the few local Bay Area weblogs that truly brought out the good of the Bay Area food blogosphere in a sea of mediocrity. I can’t imagine what it must have taken to sift through all that, [...]

It doesn’t take a genius to see when stuff isn’t working. But then, no one ever accused me of being bright. With chezGeek moving to mirepoix.org, my readership took a predictable hit. Links, including the Wall Street Journal’s and the various cooking related sources, main suppliers of a steady stream of 2,000 or so daily [...]