Category Archives: Food Business

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

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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On Schmaltz and Digital Publishing

Schmaltz is getting ready for book form. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Schmaltz, chicken fat rendered with onion, an initial "cover" photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

By contractual agreement with Little, Brown, venerable publisher of so many of my favorite authors, I will be UNPUBLISHING The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song to a Forgotten Fat tomorrow morning, so that Little, Brown can roll out the book in hardcover this coming August. So, if you want it for your iPad or iPad mini at the lowest price you'll ever see it, get it now (it's received nothing but critical raves, I'm proud to say, and is being offered at half the price it will go for electronically in August and for one-quarter its hardcover jacket price). If you already own it, don't delete it from your device and ...

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Detroit Farming

Motown is becoming a city that wants its citizens to be more aware of fresh food and urban gardening, via Civil Eats.    

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Farm Transparency v. Farm Secrecy

A foie gras farmer feeding her ducks. Photo by Michael Ruhlman.

A foie gras farmer feeding her ducks during the brief period of gavage. The ducks at the bottom of the photo showed no signs of illness or discomfort (they were quite merry, actually, if that's possible). Photo by Michael Ruhlman.

Last summer, on assignment for Condé Nast Traveler, I visited a farm that raises ducks for foie gras, driven there along harrowing roads in southwestern France by Kate Hill. I'd never seen the practice, vilified in America, of force-feeding ducks and, being in the land of foie gras and confit de canard, I had to see for myself. The farm, Souleilles, run by Yves and Geneviève Boissière, is wide, wide open in the town of Frespech. The husband and wife were warm and welcoming and ...

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A Teen’s TED

Video: How Kristopher Bronner shares how he and his brother want to change the world through making better candies, via TEDx.

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