I plan to take 15-minute walks at 10 and 2 every day (because I’m a very safe driver). If you feel like getting a poke in the ass (figuratively speaking) you can follow Kitchen Sojourn on Twitter, @kitchensojourn. I’ll be sending nudges. Hopefully, they won’t be insufferable. I’m also going to be using Instagram to [...]
Category Archives: Tools
Kitchen gear primer: get only what what you need
And be careful what you spend on As a nerd, I tend to place a great importance on things. It comes from spending my formative years with +1 swords of slaying and 1-up mushrooms. That being said, I don’t place a lot of importance on prefect kitchen gear. I use what what works for me, and [...]
Posted in Tools Leave a comment
How to find time to cook? Make the commitment
The other day I unleashed a string of obscenities on my Tumblr blog after reading “How Do Working Parents Do It?” by Pete Wells. He’s a columnist, a working dad, and I called him a bad person. Given some thought, I don’t think Mr. Wells is a bad person. I don’t know him. But little [...]
Also posted in Essay Leave a comment
Burning Questions: What knives should I buy, and how should I use them?
Q: Basic knife techniques are always needed: how to use, sharpen, which knives are essential… A: One good knife is the best thing to have in your kitchen. Start with a good chef’s knife that’s sized to fit your body. I use an eight-inch Anolon chef’s knife almost exclusively. I like its weight and balance, and [...]
Also posted in Essay 3 Comments
Weber grill misunderstood by Nathan Myhrvold, NYT
(via Kottke) Nathan Myhrvold, cookbook author Nathan Myhrvold, ex-Microsoftie and founder of an invention company called Intellectual Ventures, is also really interested in food, so much so that he’s writing a monster cookbook (currently ~1500 pages) about the science of cooking. In another discovery of culinary heat transfer physics, Dr. Myhrvold said the bulbous shape [...]
Also posted in grill, News Leave a comment