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      ‘Sourdough Jack’s’ ~ A Line Cook

      Once upon a time I was a line cook.  I worked my ass off.  And I really learned how to cook.  The place was called “Sourdough Jack’s.”  It was in Santa Rosa, California.  The year was 1978.  I was 19 years old and I had no prior restaurant experience aside from a summer job at [...]

      Urban Farmers ~ Ted & Nicole

      (Sub) Urban farmers.  DIY butchering.  Beehives on city rooftops.  Herd shares.  Farm-direct pork and beef.  Homemade, artisan everything.   There has been an explosion of interest in self-sourcing the food we eat.  Why not buy half a pig?  Have backyard chickens?  Grow our own vegetables?  It’s a far cry better than buying our food cut [...]

      Meeting James Beard

      I met James Beard — twice.  I was recently on vacation in Sonoma County.  Robert and I go up to the Russian River each summer for a week.  In the town of Guerneville is a used bookstore inside a coffee house.  A few years ago a local gentleman passed away, and the bookstore purchased his [...]

      Review: Steak with Friends

      Steak with Friends: At Home, with Rick Tramonto.  Rick Tramonto with Mary Goodbody.  Andrews McMeel Publishing.  $35.00.  (304p)  ISBN: 978-0-7407-9257-1
      First off:  this is a really BIG book, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.  Secondly, I learned a new trick from it that I wish I’d known years ago (to bake bacon rather [...]

      Cochon 555 – 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs, 5 Winemakers

      Chefs and winemakers can be a rough and tumble crowd.  Throw butchers into the mix and watch out.  Then there are chefs who also butcher.  Time to run the other way.  This spring my friend, Jo Stougaard (of My Last Bite), and I attended ‘Cochon 555 – 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs, 5 Winemakers’ in the [...]