Posts by EricTheard

I have noticed Yucca Root at my local grocery the last few times I have gone. I have never cooked with Yucca Root or even eaten it. I have never even known of any recipes that use it. However, I am very intrigued because there seems to...

Being from Louisiana I realize that there are 27,000 ways to make gumbo. Which also means that many people make roux different ways. However, roux has been around a lot longer than gumbo so I hardly think that a bunch of cajuns invented...

Amazing how dirty this thread got all of a sudden. There are still some interesting shows on the food network. Maybe not as many as a few years ago but Bobby Flay is the man and Alton Brown knows as many food facts than anybody I've...

KY I don't want to show you up but Pete was actually correct. Roux traditionally is equal amounts by weight not volume.

That is true. Definitely can't burn the roux. I've seen people make roux a number of different ways. As long as you don't burn it, any method is fine. Just another interesting fact. The black population in New Orleans largely uses...

I use to work in a pretty big restaurant and we would get slammed on the weekends. This place was on the higher end so everything had to come out right. Most Friday and Saturday nights a energy drink before the rush started was the only...

I think it is unanimous! No matter what you cook for staff meal no way is every one going to be happy. I do have to say that even though we use to plan what we were going to have for staff meal at least one day ahead of time it can...

This is my first day on this website but it is pretty fun ttalking to so many people in the food industry. I have worked in kitchens since I was in college when I needed a full time job. I got one washing dishes and quickly realized...

Just thought I would add my two cents in after reading all of the interesting comments made above. There is definitely no single correct way to make a pot of gumbo. It is more a type of food rather than a particular dish. Just look...