Elementary Chef

Food, Cooking & Wine Channel Posts

• Better Food is out There, but Where?
  It's now new idea that there are healthy benefits of organic food and that organic agriculture can provide sufficient food for the future for everyone. Whether you grow it yourself or get it from a [...]
• Barreled Down: Wine Seminar Tomorrow
  There are a few slots left for our on the influence of oak on wine. Where: ...2900 Main Street...Alameda When: Wednesday, July 9...from 6:30 to 8:30 How much: $40...$35 for club members What [...]
• Jewish-Iraqi cooking (and lots you probably don't want to know about Gillian's life)
  I nearly forgot today's post. I had an unexpected request for a short story for an anthology. Notice how very casually I threw that statement in – it's actually my first unexpected request [...]
• Panini
  So far this is shaping up to be the panini summer. Rather than slave over a hot stove I’ve been using my Griddler to make delicious sandwiches without heating up the entire kitchen. I’ll be [...]
• Name-calling and drinks menu
  At last, the end is near… We tasted twelve drinks. I have to remind myself of this because it all seems rather fuzzy now. After all, I have been home five hours. All of the drinks [...]
• Comments from the testing table
  Continuing from the last post.... These are not the carefully annotated thoughts on balances of flavour and etc: they're the funny stuff. They would have been even funnier if I had worked [...]
• The beginning of the end of Prohibition drink testing
  Today, I got drunk. The rest of the committee got more or less drunk, depending on how many were driving and whether they had to pick up children after the meeting. In fact, only two of us made [...]
• Not food history
  This week I'm trying some experiments with heart and goat mince. Not together, you understand. And also not historical. The 'not historical' in important. Too often people tell me that they [...]
• Prohibition cocktails - test the (hopefully) second last
  This is the last post for the first round of tests. The final round (where we taste all the best and chose the best of the best) is on Sunday. After Sunday, we're in the home stretch and I can [...]
• Mrs. Fisher's cookbook
  I have a thing about the South. By the South, I mean Melbourne, of course (since I'm Australian) but I also mean states like Arkansas and Alabama. One of my recent purchases is a book by Mrs. [...]