FRIED COFFEE

May is wild asparagus month so grab your binoculars, bone up on your asparagus calling skills and hit the boonies. Asparagus found in its natural environment puts the store bought vegetable to shame – no comparison. It can be found in woods, roadside ditches, and open plains. Take along a small pocket notebook to record [...]

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There’s been so much happening here.  I forgot to mention that April is Stress Awareness Month.  Please click on this Google link to see the search results that will help you become aware of stress and related information. I’m in a huge hurry this morning.  My schedule is packed and I’ve got to run.  You’ll [...]

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This is a great opportunity to introduce your children to the concept of planet consciousness, respect, and nurturing. The next generation is going to have to cope with the ills some of us have visited on our planet. The web site KABOOSE offers lots of family – oriented material and activities to involve your children [...]

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As I watched Bill Moyers Journal last night, followed by Hunger In America , I experienced a deep sadness that we should be in this situation. How can we be in a food crisis and what are our leaders doing ? Shortages at food banks, increasing burdens on average citizens, and jobs moving out of [...]

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‘s Baggers in Nuremberg, Germany has opened their version of a fast food restaurant with meals delivered via a rail system from a second floor kitchen, eliminating the need for a waitstaff. The gravity- powered rails have some kinks to be worked out, as diners report their orders occasionally become stuck en route to the [...]

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My vision when I conceived the idea for temporarychef.com was as a link for senior Chefs to find opportunities needing their considerable talents and experience on an occasional basis. I’m not trying to be an agency. Rather, I see a consortium of Chefs with passion and knowledge finding further possibilities for the practice of their [...]

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“I detest…anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.” Sybille Bedford, English author (1911-?)

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Warm days and cold nights make for wicked good sap runs. My nose has detected the bouquet the evaporating sap gives up to the air in the steam rising from the vents on the sugar shack down the road. My mouth is watering as I pull on my gum rubbers, ( it’s a little muddy [...]

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Warm days and cold nights make for wicked good sap runs. My nose has detected the bouquet the evaporating sap gives up to the air in the steam rising from the vents on the sugar shack down the road. My mouth is watering as I pull on my gum rubbers, ( it’s a little muddy [...]

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According to Clyde Eubornio Cox , Chief of Bacteriological Monitoring – Public Health Sector, mandatory DNA testing is set to become a law affecting all Chefs and cooks in the United States on May 1, 2009. The new law is in response to growing concerns by consumers and nutritionists regarding the possible spread of gene [...]

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