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Homemade Bagels Are a Breeze!
Here is a bagel recipe worthy of the best New York or Jersey deli from a baker in Boone, North Carolina. Bruce Ezzell commented on this blog ages ago and elicited a discussion about bagels, which led to his inspiring journey from being laid off to opening his own bakery. professional baker. I'll let Bruce, @thebreadlist on Twitter, tell the story.—M.R.
by Bruce Ezzell
I've been baking for 20 years now. Five years professionally from 1989-1994, then what I called 'sanity baking' after that. Newly married, kids on the way, I had to find work that gave me a steady paycheck so I left baking for new careers. The 'economic downturn' changed things for me. I lost my job as the office manager of a high-end construction company in January 2009. Boone, NC, ...
Posted in Bread, Breakfast, Guest Post, Recipes, Technique Tagged bagel recipe, bagels, bread, Bruce Ezzell, bucky dough, Malt Syrup, Owl Creel Breadworks, recipe Comments closed
Video: Inuit Mussel Harvest
Posted in Article, Seafood Tagged BBC, canada, dangerous mussel harvest, inuits harvest mussels Comments closed
Charcuterie & Polcyn
Posted in Article, Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, chefs Tagged brian polcyn, charcuterie, crain's detroit, detroit, economics of charcuterie Comments closed
Consomme Forgotton
Posted in Article, Elements of Cooking, Soups, Technique Tagged clarified broth, consomme, Hank Shaw, recipe, the atlantic Comments closed
Bocuse d’Or—Post Game
Just returned to snowy Clevelandtown, a twenty-two hour haul from Lyon via Heathrow and O’Hare, thinking all the while on the Bocuse d’Or competition and feeling bad for Team USA, and wondering what to make of it all.
“This was a tough one to swallow,” Chef Kaysen wrote in an email, hours after the competition. “I think I need some months to really draw all the inspiration that was seen there. I realized in the beginning of the day after seeing both Denmark and Sweden that we did not play the game—we went there and did our food, we did what we thought was right because we loved it so much, but clearly there is a defined game in the way that food that ...
Posted in chefs, Competition, Food Adventure, Travel Tagged all-clad, Bocuse d’Or, Chef Kaysen, france, Geranium, Joshua David Stein, lyon, Rasmus Kofoed Comments closed
Bocuse d’Or—Team USA’s Quest For Gold
We met Team USA this morning in the Paul Bocuse commissary a half mile down the road from his restaurant. The team was finishing their mise, checking it, and checking it again. A box of Chef’s Garden micro tarragon and teensy radishes had arrived, the produce in pristine condition. Commis Tom Allan prepped langoustine (they will be part of the fish platter and can be taken from their shell now but not prepped till tomorrow). These, like the greens and another part of the monkfish were shipped from the states because Kent and the others were unhappy with the quality. They were re-cooking the monk to make ...
Posted in Competition Tagged Bocuse d'Or 2011, cooking competitions, Gavin Kaysen, james kent, tom allan Comments closed
Pancake!
Posted in Article, Breakfast, Recipes Tagged david Eyre's pancake, new york times cookbook, pancake, recipe Comments closed
Bocuse d’Or 2011
What do culinary competitions mean in America? Reality shows on Bravo and the Food Network pitting chefs against one another have made compelling TV and earned huge audiences here, but actual not-made-for-TV competitions remain off the radar. American chefs who competed in them were relative unknowns, and the most well-known chefs, those with high profile restaurants, tended to dismiss them for their old fashioned, aspic-coated food platters and the hotel and country club chefs who created them.
But in 2008, one of the most revered chefs in the world, Paul Bocuse, famed both for his food and his restaurant as well as his unusual media savvy, aimed to change that by attempting to elevate the competition he ...
Posted in chefs, Competition, Food Adventure Tagged all-clad, bocuse d'or, culinary competition, daniel boulud, france, james kent, lyon, Paul Bocuse, roland henin, thomas keller, timothy hollingsworth, tom allan Comments closed















