Posts by cooknfool

Not a chef but I spent a lot of my school daze working in various level kitchens washing dishes, bussing and prepping. Saw a great reason that chef's jackets are cut the way they are one day when a knucklehead was moving a large...

Living amongst a lot of small family truck farms and having worked with the local Organic Growers' Assoc. I can attest to the questionable acts and motives of both the USDA and the land grant university system. Not saying all they've...

Twelve or so years ago I had done a field trial of some 280 different varieties of capsicums and 150 varieties of tomatoes along with countless other unusual or hard to find fruits and vegetables. Needles to say we had an abundant...

Having worked as everything from dish washer to owner, food salesman to bartender and everything in between, I have had the extreme displeasure of seeing too many kitchens that I would never ever think of eating anything from that...

Baltimore, Maryland. A couple of mayors ago they gussied up the old rat infested wharfs around the Inner Harbor, added some too expensive restaurants, an aquarium and a handful of Starbucks. Now it's as effective a tourist trap as...

Many thanks for the lively debate. Preparing to reconfigure my vintage kitchen and stumbled upon the Blue Star cook tops along with this site. Wife number 1st was a chef, I used to own a restaurant and my last wife and I love to cook,...

Many thanks for the lively debate. Preparing to reconfigure my vintage kitchen and stumbled upon the Blue Star cook tops along with this site. Wife number 1st was a chef, I used to own a restaurant and my last wife and I love to cook,...

I too married a much younger woman who I affectionately refer to as "Wife Number Last". Her penchant for self improvement via the wonders of modern medicine have our kids referring to her as "Frankenbarbie". As for...

Live on the Chesapeake and although there have been vast improvements in protecting our fisheries, the evidence here is that the damage is done and not likely to get any better in my lifetime. Maryland's largest industry is...