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[kharma]

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living." By Anthony Bourdain from Kitchen Confidential, p. 70.Something about this just tickles me pink. I've

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[smapple]

I love you just MADLY.

I dream of that walnut brandy washed cheese like every night.

[kharma]

I do too! And you know you can totally buy it at the Formaggio Kitchen, yes? ;)

[smapple]

I've also been dreaming of your blueberry dumplings with farmer's cheese since you made that one up for me when I came over last week. oi. so good.

must... get.... dumpling....

[kharma]

I will get you the recipe post haste! It's really not that hard once you know what the end product is supposed to be like.

I did freeze the rest though as I couldn't finish them all, so you'll have to come over and have dumplin' good times soon!

[dinaofdoom]

i adore food on so many different levels.
after flirting with the idea of professional training, i know i have no desire to be in a restaurant.

so, i am perfectly content to be a hedonistic pleasure pig, reveling in the senses and experiences of crafting and enjoying all kinds of food.

and, i share your love of the stinky cheeses.
the whole foods mothership here had a cheese bar, but did away with it to make more room for the italian trattoria.
i'm pissed!

[kharma]

I know... after getting a more informed opinion I question whether or not I could really cut it and love it. But then I ask myself, "Since when did you have to question loving a job that allowed you to stab people with a fork?"

Needless to say, I am kind of intrigued by the challenge.

[khourytamarisk]

Tony Bourdain is one of my heroes. :)

[kharma]

The more I read about him, the more I like him. I mean, how can you not like a guy who tells his boss to hurry up or he'll "rip out your fucking eyes and SKULL FUCK YOU!"

Oh man. A book has not made me laugh out loud like this in a long, long time.

[mandy_moon]

Oh, I love Auntie Mame! She reminds me of my boss, if Auntie Mame did surgery a lot.

When my boss isn't wearing scrubs, she wears big floppy beach hats.

[kharma]

HA! That is, quite simply, awesome.

[genesisdiem]

I'm not sure that I buy into the whole food appreciation making you want to be a chef. I love food and I can be quite the snob about it sometimes, but I'll be damned if you think I want to cook it.

[kharma]

I love to cook and bake anyway. Probably to an unhealthy level. To a level where I am learning to make my own cheese and want to buy goats to keep for raw milk.

However, when the apocalypse comes, everyone in the city will be banging on my door!

I like the thought of serving a meal where I can say that I know where everything came from. Women like Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee make me ill - Americans DO NOT need another bisquick recipe or a faster way of making empty calories from ultraprocessed boxed goods. And they wonder why this has become the land of the lazy lardbottom?

A great chef is an artist - it's just that with a chef you get to do something useful with the end product and eat it.