I don’t live in the wild. I live a very populated city, and there are a lot of brake lights in the mornings and evenings and the middle of the day and even at random times to prove it. Some of it naturally, feels unnatural – to be crammed in a City. Not the wild, …
A Conversation in Innovation & Social Media – Big Venture Capitalists Tim Chang, http://www.destinationluxury.com/, Far East Movement Hip Hop Group, original investors in Twitter. Short Youtube clip from the night: http://youtu.be/xSUE5Sfa4AA Was a leek ravioli w/ Butter poached Lobster dish in the works 🙂 12 lobster tails
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With a dish as simple as steak Tartare, the highest quality ingredients are imperative to the quality of the dish. Here I use fresh shallots, nonpareil capers, a touch of mirin and zest from the oranges in the backyard. The beef I’m using is 100% Grassfed from Montana through Bos Creek. Usually I would not …
One of my best friends was about to spend his birthday at work. The menu was all over the place but it was last minute thing and sue me. 🙂 Surf &turf. Vitello tonnato w/upland cress salad veal tacos – veal filet w /queso Oaxaca & habanero salsa saffron risotto tasting of Bos Creek …
On Tuesday, I got an email to cater an event for 12. It was a mix of very large (in monetary status, not width – that’s after the dinner 🙂 ) tech investors meets Hollywood. There were a number of different movers and shakers in the tech industry: Facebook Mobile app founder, the son of …
The way to catch rock scallops is to find them and pry them off a rock, quite simply. The depths range from 5 feet deep to sometimes we pry them off of some good spots freediving at 75 + feet, which makes for a very good workout. These areas have little pressure and large scallops. …
100% Grassfed beef is hard to find year-round. Traditionally, farmers only harvest during “green grass” months, which leaves out the entire winter. I’m working directly with a rancher in Montana whose family has been ranching for over a hundred years, and for four years experimented with how to overcome the lack of availability of Grassfeed …
link to dinner menu here: The planning behind my meals generally supports to one goal: to provide the highest quality ingredients [with the vast majority mainly] from the wild, in order for others to have a greater connection with Earth. Whether foraged or hunted or from the water, the quality of the ingredient is incredibly high, …
On January 1st, Bestia was closed and my good friend Warren wanted to propose to his girlfriend at the restaurant for a private dinner. He had his friend take some pictures. Would I have preferred to get stupidly drunk the night before? There are no days off for cooking and hunting and learning and getting …
He’s one of my best friends – I introduced him to hunting, and am trying to introduce him to spearfishing but the guy won’t jump in the water with the sharks but will cruise down the streets of Tel Aviv with the Hezbollah. Huh? There are questions. But as far as cooking goes, it’s no secret …
There’s a fine balance in cooking wild duck – if you take ducks too far in cooking they can taste livery. So you either cook it rare or ‘overcook it’ until it becomes tender (i.e. like a braise or a sinewy piece of meat that you ‘overcook’ so it ‘falls off the bone.’ The thing …