Among the acquired tastes I’ve picked up over the years, I rank Anthony Bourdain as one of the more odd. His acidic wit is fantastic, I suppose, as long as you don’t find yourself in the crosshairs of it. He worked in the ugly underbelly of the cooking world and lived to tell the tale. [...]
Culinary Education
Very clever of Adria and Soler to close El Bulli, never allowing it to become anything less than what it had been. The New York Times ran a great piece by Grant Achatz and his stage experience at El Bulli.
Since I changed career paths, went to cooking school and am now working in a restaurant, people will invariably tell me “OH MY GOD! I have told my friends/wife/husband/partner/family so many times that I would love to just chuck it all and go to cooking school!” A few thoughts on this: 1) Have a stretch [...]
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It seems like a few months ago, but it really has been a year since I was rushing about, attending to the care and feeding of software schedules, budgets, and my Blackberry. I had enjoyed a really good run in corporate America, working for a brand-name, Boston-based, pre-eminent provider of financial services. I had worked [...]
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