“The Business of Business is Business.” -Milton Friedman It’s real, it’s raw, it’s carnivorous and piscivorous. It’s matching quality and quantity and color and texture to its fair market value and watching it all go down in the Honolulu Fish Auction at 5 in the morning in an icebox- it’s friggen fun – watching fish …
The other day I got a chance to work outside my element with some more modern techniques and a lot of sauces, and art on a plate for a family in Beverly Hills. baked fresh rosemary & buttermilk bread Loup de Mer escabeche w/ small salad, used some xantham gum in the dots roasted pork …
Last year, I made a birthday dinner for a couple. The menu was particularly fun because the guy was planning a birthday surprise for his girlfriend across from Staples Center in the new high-rise condos. It was a nice pre-Christmas dinner where the kitchen was workable with a large counterspace. He said to me, “buy …
My photo. Yay for Bestia’s Opening Friday! Our Pizza dough is alive again. Downtown Los Angeles: Bestia – 2121 E 7th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021 http://www.lamag.com/digest-blog/2012/11/26/bestia-opens-its-doors-yelpers-go-crazy
This last trip was a trip taken with a few burners private plane onto an island with a small runway. It’s not foo foo, we almost died because the pilot was incompetent! old camera. with the two Balta brothers roaming the ruff streets of Cedros Island, Mex – their mom is 5’4, their dad 5’6. they somehow …
Hunting for scallops is like playing in an Easter egg hunt. The treasure you’re looking for is the orange “lip” that is on the edge of the shell (unpictured directly below – pictured two photos down) before it closes and camouflages like a rock (Our scallops in California are called Rock Scallops). The trick is …
I’ll be doing a post on beef shortly. For now… DROOL at the possibilities of FOOD & WINE pairings ^^ I saved a Robert Parker wine pairing list a while ago. Here it is: Beef Grilled Filet Mignon with Gorgonzola Scallion Compound Butter 2001 Turley Cellars, Zinfandel, Hayne Vineyard 2001 Rosenblum Cellars, Zinfandel, Monte Rosso …
one of the Catena wines brought home from Argentina Dry Aged Boulder Valley Beef. always a food celebration when my brother comes to town. Trim the outside dried meat…and you get… salt, pepper, garlic, thyme. good product. anticipation prime rib & wine. Life good.
My friend walked into my kitchen and said, where are you gonna store 70 pounds of duck legs? Um, in mah belly! 37 hour process for great duck confit. prepare salt, cook low temp for 13 hours. finished 20 pounds, 50 more to go! time to find some pinot noir. This is one course for …
The official opening of our restaurant BESTIA (November 23, 2012) is preceded by 4 weeks of Test Kitchen – a fun social event that brings a different chef every night. Chefs ranging from Louisiana, to Baja, Mexico to our home town of Los Angeles come to cook in the new restaurant space, located in the booming Downtown …
Every hunt is different. Every sunrise and sunset – beautiful. I LOVE the hunt!!!!! Whether I come home with something or not. This was the landscape I saw Monday at sunset. Bow in one hand, camera in the other. Endless rolling hills. It was pretty awesome. Imagine seeing it in person. click to enlarge …
The Acunto goes to +/- 1200 degrees. It weighs close to 3000kg and is a monumental piece of equipment and a work of art. We had to use a crane to drop it in the restaurant since it wouldn’t fit in the front door. Bestia just got approved by the health and fire departments, so …
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