Cooking with David Dadekian on The Rhode Show at Blackbird Farm
Each year The Rhode Show runs a “Search for a Star” competition to see who will be a host of the show for the following year. Out of countless video entries and live auditions, online voters choose 20 semi-finalists and then another round of online voting produces the top 5 finalists for the position. Tashanea [...]
Gracie’s Star Chefs Series with Chef Ciril Hitz – Monday, August 6, 2012
It’s time again for one of my favorite dinners of the entire year, and I have some pretty spectacular dinners—just recently I tasted most of the items on 2012 James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist Chef Benjamin Sukle’s new menu at The Dorrance and had incredible wines with dinner at the Troquet wine cellar clear out [...]
Charcutepalooza December: Thank You
And so it goes. Our year of meat has come to a close. For the final Charcutepalooza challenge we were told to show what we learned all year. In Cathy’s own words, do some “showing off” with a celebration. Personally, I think a lot of the Charcutepalooza participants have been showing off all year long—and I [...]
Charcutepalooza November: Curing: Bresaola
So we come to the end (almost), the final Charcutepalooza challenge, curing a whole cut of meat. Arguably, as long as you have your curing formula right and a place to hang the cut to dry at the right temperature and humidity, this was one of the least challenging challenges. Or maybe that’s the end result [...]
BBQ Bonanza 2011 – Barbecued Beef Short Ribs
This summer my friend Jacqueline Church has been showcasing BBQ posts on her site from some really great chefs and writers. The focus has been on sustainability at the grill and a few weeks ago my post on Barbecued Beef Short Ribs was featured. Please check it out and I hope, like me, you learn [...]
Charcutepalooza August: Binding: trotter terrine
Back to familiar ground for this month’s Charcutepalooza challenge, though it was only my second time working with pig’s feet, so it wasn’t totally familiar. You read that right, pig’s feet, as in euphemistically speaking, trotters. Yes, there are photos of said trotters further down this page. If you don’t want to see severed pig’s [...]
The Capital Grille’s The Generous Pour Summer Wine Event
One of the better restaurant wine deals that I’ve come across in a while is going on now, through September 4, at The Capital Grille in Providence. The Generous Pour Summer Wine Event lives up to it’s name. For $25, with dinner, diners may have as many of nine specially selected wines as they like. [...]
Tallulah’s Tacos, “A Farm to Taco Cart” from Tallulah on Thames
Tallulah on Thames co-owners Chef Jake Rojas & Kelly Ann Maurice have started “A Farm to Taco Cart” business called, naturally, Tallulah’s Tacos. The cart debuted at the Coastal Growers’ Market at Casey Farm on Saturday, May 14 to huge success. There was a steady line of people and all of the tacos for the [...]
Persimmon Provisions Now Open in Barrington, RI
Persimmon Provisions, an artisan butcher shop in Barrington, is now open. The store is stocked with turkeys for Thanksgiving, both all-natural and organic varieties. A side of Blackbird Farm beef, from Smithfield, Rhode Island, was brought in and butchered to offer local steaks, roasts and ground meat to customers. Another local farm, Round the Bend [...]
Chefs Collaborative Summit Butchery Demo and Barbecue
Here are twelve photographs from the Chefs Collaborative National Summit that was held in Boston, October 3-5, 2010. If you are not interested in animal butchery or whole animal cooking, do not scroll down to the remaining eleven photos. You have been warned.
