I read this "cookbook" cover to cover. And I cooked some of the recipes along the way. What sets this book apart is how he illustrates key ideas and techniques with recipes, rather than the other way around. He is also a wordsmith. Sometimes his language about food borders on the over-sensual, bu...
You know that old saying about how some people live to eat while others eat to live?I think foodies think that living to eat automatically makes them somehow knowledgeable about food — you know, just because they like to stuff their gobs and eat a lot of both good and bad things.I refuse to call ...
The other day, I came across this paragraph from Michael Ruhlman’s “The Reach of a Chef”:“The work is hard; no one’s forcing you to be here. If you don’t like it, leave. If it’s too hard, if you can’t do it, we’ll find someone who can — nothing personal — but service starts at 5:30 and there’s a ...
In this innovative cookbook, James Beard award-winning author Michael Ruhlman explains why the egg is the key to the craft of cooking. For culinary visionary Michael Ruhlman, the question is not whether the chicken or the egg came first, it's how anything could be accomplished in the kitchen with...
At first this seemed odd. I was a writer who was being given fairly broad access to a large institution with an operating budget of $65 million, an institution that influenced the enormous food service industry, an institution that he cared a lot about. He had chosen not to meet me. And I had cho...
At the bottom of the main staircase he stopped, bent his big frame down to pick up a foil-and-plastic rectangle, empty of its cold pills, and carried it till we passed a trash can. When I wrote about the boys’ school, the headmaster was forever stooping to gather scraps as he walked through the s...
Here is where I had my first Ramos gin fizz, which contains an egg white. As I went on to explore more of the bar’s offerings, I paid close attention to the impact of the egg white on the cocktails. Proprietor Paulius Nasvytis has on his menu a variety of cocktails that include egg white. An egg ...