In a blog entry that I’ve only just now discovered, one of my favorite writers and the author of The Elements of Cooking, Michael Ruhlman, raised the issue of favorite kitchen gadgets. It’s a great question, particularly for those of us in love with gadgets. Ruhlman writes, “I’m not the first to suggest that a …
Author Archives: Kevin Weeks
It Ain’t Hard
July 21, 2008 – 5:00 am
Among my many jobs, one is as a food columnist for a social networking site named Gather.com where I publish article/recipes under the title “Paisano” focused on what I call “peasant” food. Essentially it’s about family cooking from around the world. One column may cover pot roast and the next fondue which has a gourmet …
Inefficiencies of Scale
July 14, 2008 – 5:00 am
I came home from the farmers’ market last Tuesday with a couple of pounds of tomatoes. To some folks, that makes me a brave or foolish man. So far more than 1,000 people have officially been sickened by the latest salmonella outbreak. But, health care professionals say that in such estimates, for every reported case …
Review: Spanish Road Trip
July 11, 2008 – 6:07 pm
I first fell in love with Spanish food while attending a programming trade show in Washington, DC. Some friends and I had dinner At Jaleo’s, a tapas bar. Prior to that I’d had Americanized paella, which my mother occasionally made when I was growing up, but that was the extent of my experience with Spanish …
Addiction
July 8, 2008 – 5:00 am
Some folks have a prediliction to addiction and others don’t. Those of us who are somewhat obsessive/compulsive have a particular problem with addiction, let this be a warning to you cooks about letting the genie of kitchen gadgets out of the bottle. I’ve moved seven times in the past ten years chasing jobs – four …
