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Food and Cooking

MAKE AN APPLE TART NOW

Put on a good album and MAKE AN APPLE TART RIGHT NOW. Stop waiting for a special dinner or lunch with friends. Just use those amazing organic apples you just bought and make a tart. Here, to help you hurry up here’s the recipe. For more pictures on how we ended up enjoying the thing, check out […]

Food and Cooking

FOOD FIGHT

Hello friends! We wanted to share some beautiful pictures our friend Jessica Beisler took at Food Fight, a benefit held last May for myself and my partner Naomi. It was put on by family, friends and our local food and beverage community. I had just been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and hadn’t been […]

Food and Cooking

SLOW RISE

This is my onion, potato and herb focaccia. It is inspired by my new food hero, Gabriele Bonci and the naturally leavened pizzas he makes at his restaurant Pizzarium in Rome. I’ve never tried them, but he is widely known as a pizza/focaccia/flatbread wizard. It took parts of 3 separate days until it found its way to […]

Food and Cooking, Italian Food

GABRIELE BONCI IS THE MAN

I fell down the rabbit hole last night. While innocently searching worlds best bakeries on google, I happened upon Pizzarium, Gabriele Bonci’s Roman pizzeria. To see this man make pizza on the Italian cooking show La Prova Del Cuoco (video above), is a joy to behold. Barrel chested and intimidating, he has a way with […]

Events, Food Media

MESSORS CULINARY WORKSHOPS

I am honored that my good friend Tonio Creanza has invited me to travel with him to Puglia, Italy this June to help out with his Messors Culinary Workshops. Messors is an exploration into the Mediterranean culture in Tonio’s hometown of Altamura and the surrounding areas. These workshops are open to the public, and we […]

Recipes

SMOKED OYSTER CHOWDER

I like chowder. Do you like chowder? We recently made a smoked oyster chowder for a party and it was a hit. The first step was to get some beach oysters from Steve at Sawmill Bay Shellfish on the Island. The day before making the chowder, they were shucked and smoked them in their brine […]