Does bacon make everything better? Some people swear it does. I love bacon, but I can't claim to be bacon obsessed.

Even so, my friends dragged me to a sliver of a restaurant in the East Village recently to try Permanent Brunch. What lured them in? Bacon, of course. But this place takes it a step furt... Read More

Everywhere you turn on the Internet, there seems to be a food blog. For me, that's the problem.

Everyone and their grandma writes — I use that term loosely — a food blog documenting what they ate for dinner (even if it was a frozen burrito they nuked in the microwave) or the "out-of-this-world" meal they ate at a newly discovered restaurant (serious... Read More

I'm guilty.

Yes, I've bought Tyson chickens before instead of farm-raised ones grown closer to my box of an apartment in Manhattan. And there's been more than one occasion where I picked the pink farm-raised salmon over the wild Alaskan salmon to serve at dinner parties. I admit it's difficult to always eat organically and responsibly — even more so on a ... Read More

One of the best things about going to culinary school in New York, or just living in New York, is the Union Square Greenmarkt. Much has been written about this urban farmer's market - it's not one of the many hidden culinary gems that food writers in this city are always uncovering. But it is a marvel, even to a regular patron like myself.

If you're a culinary ... Read More

Convenience of Inconvenience?
My second lab at Johnson and Wales was Introduction to Cake Decorating and Petit Fours. On our very first day, we examined the use of convenience products in the work place. We tested out a chocolate and vanilla cake mix and a chocolate fudge icing.

All of previous experience in the kitchen revolves around ... Read More

I had a question from a commenter about the possibility of attending culinary school while maintaining a vegetarian diet and thought I would address it here. I asked the same question of my chef when even I, callous carnivore that I am, couldn’t stand the thought of ingesting any more animal protein after an arduous class featuring