Just the fact that I even have the opportunity to write this post makes me an incredibly happy guy. You see, a few weeks ago I had heard about an event coming to Boston that just about sounded like the greatest thing ever…Cochon 555, a traveling pork-themed competition/free-for-all. Throughout the spring, Cochon555-related events are held [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Ryan & Wood Distillery
Note: This ‘preview’ is the first of what I hope will become a series of entries that highlight some of my favorite local food and beverage producers from the greater Boston area. Instead of thinking of these posts as advertisements or plugs for these various business, I like to think of them as a way [...]
A Critical Conversation
3/26/2010 update: The event organizer has uploaded a link to the podcast of this event. Click here to listen to the discussion in its entirety. As I’ve touched on in previous posts, lately I’ve been finding myself questioning the sources of what I eat. How far did the foods that I prepare for dinner on [...]
Stuffed Cabbage
Like many ‘traditional’ dishes, there are countless ways to prepare the Eastern European delicacy that is stuffed cabbage, with each home cook potentially claiming that their family recipe is the best version. Personally, I was never a huge fan of the dish until recently when I finally had a version that I liked (too bad [...]
New England Food Show
Today was the last day of the annual three-day New England Food Show, held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Normally only open to trade professionals, students are allowed to attend on the show’s last day. While I am not in any position to be looking for the latest and greatest food service equipment [...]
Seattle
As promised, here’s the full report from our recent Seattle adventure. I’m pleased to say that we managed to have many great meals and didn’t even have to break our budget to do so. Not too long after landing in the Emerald City, we found ourselves strolling along Alki Beach in West Seattle right at [...]
Final Exam
The wife and I returned from Seattle yesterday and what that means, in addition to coping with some of the worst of jet-lag that we’ve ever had thanks to a long cross-country red-eye flight, is that I am finally able to upload the pictures of my final culinary school dish. Upon arriving at school last [...]
Congratulations…to me!!
Well, it’s all over, I am officially a culinary school graduate! Yesterday’s final assignment was to prepare a ballotine with a stuffing, sauce and side dish of my choosing. I’ll write more about that later, but I will say that I, and the judges, were very pleased with the way the dish came out. And [...]
Finals Week
If I had to picture what hell looks like, it might look something like this: A small table filled with mountains of flash cards, lecture notes, class outlines and old quizzes without any distractions in sight. This fortress of solitude has unfortunately been my home for the better part of the last few days as [...]
Creative Practicum – Pork Sliders
Last Friday, the day after my final culinary school class, I had my first of four exams, the only obstacles still standing between me and my culinary school diploma. This first exam, referred to as a creative practicum, was actually much less of an exam and more of a chance for each student to demonstrate [...]
