I’ve been traveling all over the place, for work and for pleasure, hence the lack of restaurant and cooking project posts in January. Once I got back from Savannah yesterday afternoon, I spent the rest of the day cooking and watching football, and it was pure pleasure spending some time in the dojo. As I’ve [...]
In addition to old cookbooks, my mother recently came across her grandfather’s World War I diary, from 1917 to 1919. I never met my great grandfather and quite enjoyed this rare connection to the past. He didn’t relay much personal sentiment in his journal; most of it is a simple chronicle of events, often a sentence or two, [...]
The most expensive tuna ever was sold last week in Japan, at the famous Tsukiji market in Tokyo. Tsukiji is not only the largest supplier of fish in the world, but like the options for goods traded on the floor of the Merc in Chicago, the auctions at Tsukiji have a global impact on the [...]
