Never another vol au vent, no more stuffed cherry tomatoes, Argaarch! Smoked salmon, I won’t even finish the description. I’ve had my fill of crostini and will be happy not to toast another bruschetta or brush butter on filo pastry. I seek the new, unknown and creative Half the creative canape battle is presentation, The [...]

The gulls and pelicans swoop in gobbling up the discards of the days catch. I join the queue, a dollar a fish for the deckhands to fillet your catch for you. The waste, oh the waste! My issues kick in and I decide to keep my fish whole. “Can you just scale gill and gut [...]

Is it like New Zealand food? Californians are into fusion,

An early Heston Blumenthal’s creation that led to his nitro green tea dessert, it is very easy, soo much fun and it actually produces a good result too Make a custard, flavour it with anything you like, my favourite for this technique is chai Ginger, cardamom, clove, cinnamon, fennel seeds, peppercorns, black tea Brew in [...]

One of the few things I retained from my economics training is that waste is inefficient but the models I was taught always showed how interfering with the magical market was always the cause of the inefficiency (something about deadweight loss). Our current economic system is full of inefficiencies from the motorways (oh sorry do [...]

So we should eat them, why do we westerners have an aversion to heads? Putting a face to flesh makes it harder to consume recklessly? Are the eyes are the problem? What do you do with a pig face? I decided to smear it with a porchetta inspired mix, fennel seeds, sage, thyme, rosemary, lotsa [...]

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Our current food system is incredibly wasteful – in the western world mainly due to opulence and the developing world more due to a lack of infrastructure. The business of food has turned the simple act of consuming nutrients as a basic need for survival into a hedonistic pleasure. Food products mix; fat, sugar and [...]

I am sticking below 14th street with these recommendations. I only encourage passing 14th to wander the greenmarket in Union square or sit in the park with one of the best sandwiches ever put together from Ippudo offers the best ramen outside of Japan, a step above David Chang’s famed Momofuku, try them both if [...]

Thanks to Andrew Speigel for the inspiration Cheers to Tofu for the challenges its blandness brings All hail the Japanese mandolin that I still love even thou it has drawn more blood from me than any other implement or accident, never serious but always scary And a guide to creating something similar – A cabbage [...]