First, I am not looking for sympathy I am just sharing with friends. It has been a loooong week for me. Ever since the server fiasco it has been non-stop work. We moved the forum and the photo gallery and those pieces have been running without a hitch since the move. However all of the main site content was down for days.

Basically for the past week I have been up working by 5:00 managing the Bruce A forum ( adding sponsor banners, approving posts), and then coming home at 4:00 and...

No I am not talking about the chocolate candies as some might presume. I am referring to the priciest fungus on Earth. I myself, a week ago, did not know much about this indulgent ingredient. That was until I was given the option to gain knowledge of such a thing, in my culinary arts class. I did a bit of research and found them to be quite intriguing. One cannot just go out to a farm and expect to find these rare fungi. Truffles are grown underground and only in certain parts of...

Recently, my shop has had the blessing of being able to try truffles out. We had a box full of free samples come in which included, 3 fresh black truffles, a frozen box of summer black truffles, Black truffle oil, White Truffle oil, a truffle slicer, Truffle butter, and a book catalog about the company's process with truffles. I was amazed to see that we actually obtained such a spectacular present and to have the chance to even see what a truffle was. Chef Berman even said himself that this was...

Nicko had contacted me about continuing my blog regarding my restaurant experiences. However, prior to today, I just couldn't bring myself around to it just yet.

Long story short, after all my efforts and sacrifices to make the career change, I got blindsided a bit by a physical problem...sciatica! Basically, this is a back problem that affects the sciatic nerve that runs from the spine through your gluts, to the front of your thighs and downward.

I pushed through...

Yes it is january and i am a little late on talking about thanksgiving, but national financial stress month (december) has led me to actually sit down and watch movies and tv.....alot......and with boredom comes ranting.

So what alot of people now take for granted is our planet earth. People dont realize how MUCH the earth does for us then what they think. It gives us wood to build our houses, land for recreation......and food, which is what i am primarily stressing......then i started...