This past weekend was the third session of what I’ll call the “educational and aspirational” meals I’ve cooked with my friend Brad. Meals where we’ve invested ourselves (and our cash) in planning a meal from a particular cookbook which require an inordinate amount of research and planning. The first time we tackled The French Laundry. [...]
I made this porchetta a week or so ago, one of the easiest, most excellent, and least expensive things I’ve cooked lately. The most difficult part is waiting for it to cook while the pork and herbs permeate the air of the whole house. I cooked it for almost an hour longer than the recipe [...]
On my current work expedition through North Carolina, I realized I’d be passing through Lexington, home to a very particular and infamous style of BBQ. In this part of the country, BBQ is equivalent to pork, and the trademark offering is a chopped sandwich. I sampled five sandwiches in an hour, the first twenty miles [...]
