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This quote, from the French Laundry Cookbook, teaches something important about craft, by way of snails:
"Snails are now commercially cultivated in California, giving us a new ingredient to work with. I wanted to use them in a way that wasn't stereotypical but also wasn't so far away from traditional preparations as to be contrived or confusing." -
Pretzel Rolls
I make a guest appearance in today's Food Junta, after causing an existential crisis for the author of the blog post.
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Last night contained something like 24 pieces of sashimi, 2 sushi rolls, 2 hand rolls, and 8 of those pieces of fish tied to a square of rice with seaweed.
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Birthday party
Had an amazing evening last night.
Rachel made pork chops with bacon and ham shavings, some ungodly good potatoes with apples, and salmon tartare cornets.
Oh, yeah. . . those salmon tartare cornetsAnd then she gave me the French Laundry cook book. She was piling it on. I nearly proposed, but we had to clean the table off so that a million ( Read more... )
