This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps ke...
There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.
There has ling been a happy symbiotic relationship between kitchen and bar. Simply put, the kitchen wants booze, and the bartender wants food.
To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction. What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people? Why would anyone who has worked hard, saved money, often...
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically...