The Bake-Off, and a Bonus If you’ve stuck with this ludicrously overfermented series this far, you’ve already seen the recipes behind the three approaches to no-knead bread that Cuisine Stupide has tested: Jim… [Continue Reading]
The Loaf Awakens: A No-Knead Bake-Off (Part Three of Four)
Copycats and Contrarians The outpouring of attention that the food world gave no-knead bread in the wake of the 2006 Mark Bittman column inspired many other chefs to work up their… [Continue Reading]
The Loaf Awakens: A No-Knead Bake-Off (Part Two of Four)
Some Kneadless Exposition As far as we’ve been able to determine, Jim Lahey was the first to put together the four essential elements of what has come to be known… [Continue Reading]
The Loaf Awakens: A No-Knead Bake-Off (Part One of Four)
A New Way to Bread Of the many tens of thousands of words that food journalist Mark Bittman has written, perhaps none have had greater impact on how America cooks… [Continue Reading]
Vincent and Mary: Back from the Dead
A Treasury of Great Recipes, the epic 1965 cookbook by movie legend Vincent Price and his wife Mary, is available again in a new 50th anniversary edition. Chef Sin wrote… [Continue Reading]
Let’s get small
Ten months ago, the two of us, Chef Sin and Chef Zuz, decided to move from the third-largest city in the Northwest to a small town in Oregon. Doing so… [Continue Reading]
Great, so now you tell me
Remove all juices with baster before removing from oven. Never lift by sides. Always support the bottom. As Chef Sin notes, it’s not helpful to put the important safety information… [Continue Reading]
Halloween in a Glass! A-maize Your Friends!
Chef Sin has always loved candy corn. Yours truly (Chef Zuz), not so much. It’s an ancient autumn tradition that truly divides Ghoul Nation. For some, it just wouldn’t be… [Continue Reading]
The Eternal Excellent Chowder
Author Mark Kurlansky has made a career of examining the intersection of cuisine and culture. In such outstanding treatises as The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell and Cod:… [Continue Reading]
Eat Anything You Want — Just Cook It Yourself
As usual, Michael Pollan is right.