about Perennial Perpetual Food!!

Eric Toensmeier Tours His Backyard Perennial Food Garden and teaches us that with a little know how, we can change the way we look at “yard work”. He is producing delicious, healthy food nearly year round in a relatively small space.





The video runs 30 minutes. Enjoy!

In this video, Eliot Coleman, author of the recently released The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, presents the story of the winter harvest. He speaks about how he came to become the nation’s leading four-season farmer and the shock of the industrial establishment when his all-organic cold-weather growing methods proved to be not only possible—but more productive than “traditional” (chemical) methods.

Eliot Coleman is my hero.

about Salvador Dali's little-known cookbook Les Diners de Gala

Written in 1971, this fabulous gastronomic work contains Dali's favorite recipes from famous Parisian cafes and his wife Gala's home cooking. With recipe titles like "Pierced Heart" and "Ox Snouts in Puff Pastry Shells".

Dali's introduction states that when he was a little boy he always wanted to be a chef. At the age of 68, as an established artist, Dali created this heavy tome about his gastronomic adventures. Filled with colorful spreads and illustrations, Dali here exemplifies the starving artist. Not the artist who cannot afford to eat, but the artist hungry with passion, consuming food just as he devours art– with gusto, extravagance and panache.

At the beginning, he opens with a Dante-esque warning:
"Les Diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste. Do not look for dietetic formulas here."











































I saw a few great blog posts about this and thought I must share it with you!

about Spicy Bacon Lollipop recipe

about How to make Big Mac cupcakes

Love these cupcakes, it would be great to do some cake fries and a real milkshake to go with it

about Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Food Porn

As I have previously mentioned over on lesliebradshaw.com, this is a frequent must-watch show when I am over at Jesse's.

The pitch from Ingrid caught my attention when she said: "I didn't want to include the real title of the special in the subject line in fear that my email would wind up in your junk folder! Anyway..."

That said, here are a few more teasers from the show...

"Bourdain is well aware of the body's similar chemical and physical responses to food and sex." (aren't we all?)

"After traveling across the globe for years, and sampling some of the world's greatest gastronomic pleasures, he is ready to share some of his favorite examples of what he likes to call…food porn. In this special episode, Tony presents a XXX selection of all that's lip-smacking and luscious in the food world."

Hot. Must see. Monday, February 9th at 10pm EST.

about Thirsty Bernie in Arlington, VA

2163 N Glebe Rd
Arlington, VA 22207
(703) 248-9300

I went with leslie last night and we had a charcuterie plate with pates and little bits. Then we had meatball sliders that were tasty and unique and also primaly fulfilling in a way meat and cheese on crostini can provide. I then had a hamburger as well, which is what I came for in the first place. their chef makes his own sausages and meats and grinds everything himself etc. its INCREDIBLE, I was really impressed. The reason I am writing this blog post is because its in a little strip mall in N.Arlington and youd never find it if you didnt know what you were looking for. ... AND because according to our waiter, Stachowski is apparently leaving to do something else in a few weeks so get it while you can!

really good fresh homemade bright green pickles, tasty interesting flavors all round, lots of large flat screen tvs blaring sports and lots of special homemade MEAT.

"The he-man menu is the creation of chef Jamie Stachowski, whose charcuterie was one of the best things about Restaurant Kolumbia. When he and his wife, Carolyn, closed that K Street eatery a year ago, Stachowski—who claims to have worked in 27 restaurants since he was 14—was a man without a kitchen. So what did the burly chef do? He holed up in his garage and made meat." - washingtonian

Watch a video of Stachowski making sausage