Next Project

A friend of mine, and fellow Blogger, has been intermittently teasing me for weeks with tales of her home made wines – dandelion, grapefruit – it seems that anything you can think to pluck from the earth, you can make into wine. Being a lover of both plucking and of wine, and getting a royal [...]

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On Going Home

What follows may sound very silly. After 50 weeks – or something near to that – at WCI, I enjoyed a mandatory six week internship before I was granted my freedom from the program and, I suppose, the tacit support of the school that I might be capable of holding my own in the world. [...]

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Save Your Tuition Dollars, Here’s The Secret

While I am reserving judgment on formal culinary education as a means of career improvement, my fifty weeks in a cravat and starched hat were, if nothing else, a hoot. I got to hang out with all varieties of the food-obsessed – I made friends with young men who had been working on hot lines [...]

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