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Drinking With The Botanist

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I have written before about how much I enjoyed reading The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart and experimenting with her cocktail concoctions.     Our most recent experiment was to replicate the outstanding Mai Tai served at The House Without a Key at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. The secret, as I learned from Amy Stewart, is the addition of Orgeat syrup. It took us a few trips to the local liquor stores, but we managed to procure the syrup. The experiment was a huge success, and we ought to know since we've had the real deal many times at the amazing Halekulani.   Ingredients: - 1/3 – Ounce Orgeat Syrup – 1/3 Ounce Orange Curaçao – 1/3-Ounce Rock Candy Syrup – 3/4-Ounce Bacardi Gold Rum – Read more [...]

Wood-Fired Pizza

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I stumbled upon a blogger who questions whether Wood-Fired Pizza is inherently any better than the more typical baked product. In our experience (which is mostly in Italy), the thin-crust perfect pizza is almost always wood-fired. Here are a some shining examples from the USA. The Diavolo, which is topped with tomato sauce, sopresatta, roasted peppers, crushed red pepper flakes, and mozzarella. Connies Pizza has a unique pie-like top crust Spinach with Browned Onions, Roasted Peppers, Kalamata Olives and Feta Cheese Flying in First Class on a major airline The anchovy pizza at City House, Nashville Keep it simple with the margherita (San Marzano tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, extra-virgin olive oil ,fresh basil, Read more [...]

Food Network Tipping Point

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I  was just commenting to Mrs Chabernet that Food Network appears to have been hijacked by Guy Fieri who ordered them to run all his episodes back-to-back. Lo and behold, Salon Magazine has just published a story titled "How one man destroyed the Food Network: Guy Fieri has made culinary TV into a viewer’s hell" Could this signal a tipping point for the highly successful Food Network and now every cooking show will be Triple-D'd? This reminds me of the Shoe Store theory in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: an economic theory that draws a correlation between the level of economic (and emotional) depression of a society and the number of shoe shops the society has. The theory is summarized as such: as a society sinks into depression, Read more [...]