I love to eat and drink absolutely everything. Some of my favorite culinary fare includes wild salmon sashimi from Canada’s beautiful British Columbia, bathtub brewed rice wine from South Korea and tacos crafted by Mexico’s street vendors with questionable hygiene. If I see it and it’s been braised, broiled or grilled, I’m going to eat it. The only consumable I can remember refusing was a glass of snake and scorpion infused wine with the bodies of both beasts still fermenting [...]
Tom Collins
In 1874, people in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the United States would start a conversation with “Have you seen Tom Collins?” After the listener predictably reacts by explaining that they did not know a Tom Collins, the speaker would assert that Tom Collins was talking about the listener to others and that Tom Collins was “just around the corner”, “in a [local] bar,” or somewhere else near. The conversation about the nonexistent Tom Collins was [...]
I was driven to make bread for the first time out of necessity not a love for baking or to impress an attractive date or dinner guests. Korean cuisine is full of wonderful dishes and ingredients but unfortunately very few Korean bakeries, of which there are a multitude, have yet to get bread right. Like many of the cultural imports here bread is more an interpretation on what Koreans think bread should taste like than how it actually does in most Western countries. Where other [...]
Recently I was out for drinks with a few friends. We were sitting at the bar, drinking and chatting and just generally having a great time when behind the bar I noticed the bartender pull down from the shelf two unlabeled plastic bottles. Ah shit, I thought, here we go again. My fears were confirmed as the bartender threw one of the bottles up in the air and caught it, wobbly but more or less balanced, on the back of [...]
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Increasingly in the post modern world people find themselves at a disconnect with the all that surrounds them, we understand less and less of what we encounter on a daily basis, whether by choice or by the incapability to comprehend a world as complex as the one in which we live. We bite into a New York Strip Steak with little real appreciation of how it came to be, most of us never having slaughtered a chicken much less [...]
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