Category Archives: Food Adventure

White Asparagus

By Emilia | Published: May 6, 2013

In Europe it is time to celebrate the highly prized white asparagus and go foraging for it too, via NYT.

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How to Cook Morels

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 1, 2013

Fresh ramps and morel mushrooms. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Fresh ramps and the coolest edible to grow out of the ground, morel mushrooms.
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

No surer sign of spring, this lovely photo above. And when wild edibles grow together they're often great cooked together. Last week for one of the final shots for the new book I ordered fresh morels from a fabulous company in northern Michigan called Earthy Delights (thanks, Chip and Ed!). I love the food of Michigan—the stone fruit, the eau de vie made from their skin, the tart cherries, the mushrooms. Same as the Great Lakes territories of Ohio, which booms with ramps right now. We get so many wild ramps that Jonathon Sawyer, who turned 13 today, spiritually (good luck at ...

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Chasing the Dream: Chef Patricia Tracey
(with Salsa Verde)

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 29, 2013

Baked eggs – ready to be topped with salsa verde

Baked eggs with salsa verde. Photo by Patricia Tracey.

People call me a chef (even says so here). I’m not a chef. Ted Allen is not a chef (as if his round wood spoons didn’t say as much). Rachael Ray is not a chef. None of us ever said we were. (I have on occasion, claimed to be, but that was just to piss off Michael Symon, who is a chef, or was—now he’s a TV cook, entertainer, and successful restaurateur. I cooked at Sans Souci, a Marriot-owned restaurant, ages ago, but I wouldn’t last an hour on the line today.) Terms matter. I say this because today’s guest poster, Patricia Tracey, is and remains solely a chef. Not a celeb chef like Symon or Bobby Flay (both of ...

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Also posted in chefs, Eggs, Food Business, Guest Post, Recipes, sauce | Tagged baked eggs, following a dream, kick starter, Mediterranean Salsa Verde, Myriad Gastro Pub, restaurant, san francisco, starting a business, Trish Tracey | 13 Comments

12 Cider Facts

By Emilia | Published: April 22, 2013

Hard cider is delicious, but it is also trending here in the United States check out these interesting cider facts, via Food Republic.

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Edible Weeds

By Emilia | Published: April 8, 2013

Spring is here and it is prime foraging time, try preparing some dandelion greens for dinner, via LA Times.

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Category Archives: Food Adventure

White Asparagus

How to Cook Morels

Chasing the Dream: Chef Patricia Tracey
(with Salsa Verde)

12 Cider Facts

Edible Weeds

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