Tales from Cheffing Around
The kalua pork butt, massaged vigorously with thick flakes of Hawaiian pink salt and impaled by many garlic cloves, spent 5 hours on a rack above smokey hardwood, and was then wrapped in banana leaves and set in a 325 degree oven for another 4 …
My phone rings. I’m begrudgingly scrolling through thumbnail pics of my food to see if they’re worth uploading to my website. It’s a dreary day outside, and I have sunk into the dead-brain funk of my slowest work season. This is an annual winter condition, …
My flight into BWI was an hour and a half late. “Just touched down,” I texted my parents, who had flown in from Italy the night before. My mom texted back, “Since your flight was late, we have to go directly to the restaurant. We’ll …
The kalua pork butt, massaged vigorously with thick flakes of Hawaiian pink salt and impaled by many garlic cloves, spent 5 hours on a rack above smokey hardwood, and was then wrapped in banana leaves and set in a 325 degree oven for another 4 …