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 …
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 …
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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Welcome to my toolbox 10.1.2012, in pictures These are some of the tools I use to catch, then cut up my dinner. Sumora is my Spearfishing company. Sumora Stealth Spearguns (great for hunting reef fish) Sumora Apex Spearguns (designed for bigger fish) (roughly 5 pounds) We teamed with 11x National Champion Tommy Botha to build …
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. -Mitch Hedberg A few notes from earlier years – On Fish. June 2007: The tailor Al down the street says …
“As Life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex. But only if the salami is thickly sliced.” -Alan King, Comedian Thought: If I could rewrite the rhythm and harmony that the salami sang to my belly when my teeth dug.. Thought: Pavarotti, I’m sure, ate a …
The taste of Abalone, namely, its taste in proportion to its astronomical price, was a bewilderment to my childhood days as a Kumon arithmetimagician! Upwards of $75USD/ pound gross weight, a single abalone would fetch in the $300-500USD+ range for some chewy, braised, doused in cornstarch and mushroom XO sauce. But was it the lack …