A Recent Duel of Brunches

A Recent Duel of Brunches

Brunch is a curious beast, doubly so when hyped and backed into a corner. The Strange Baker and I have found ourselves in back to back weeks with two very similar brunches. Here’s what’s on the board: Henrietta Eggs bearnaise Benedict smoked salmon biscuit, salad,...
A Recent Duel of Brunches

Brown Butter

I once worked service in a bistro downtown. It was fraught, as all restaurants are, with its fair share of problems, but it introduced many lessons, objects, practices, and tastes that would follow me through the years, not the least of which was my discovery of brown...
A Recent Duel of Brunches

Food and Culture

This took me a while to sit down and start. I find the divide between food and the cultures that consume and create it intractable, similar to how food and medicine is impossibly linked in Chinese cuisines. I vacillated between taking a high view of food and culture,...