I served this recipe for Christmas Dinner in 2010, taking a minor spin on the version dreamed up by Thomas Keller for Williams-Sonoma (where you can find many recipes to prepare with appliances & tools purchased from the store). Simply follow all instructions/directions provided here, but substitute the following: Use 7 cups of Great Northern Beans instead of [...]

Here I take a fun twist on George Mendes’ version of Smoky Chorizo Brioche Stuffing he developed for Food & Wine Magazine! The key substitution I’ve made here is the use of Pumpernickel loaf bread instead of just Brioche as instructed by Mendes.  I did end up including a couple handfuls of cubed Brioche bread [...]

I’ve watched the construction of the Setai Hotel from my apartment window for the past two or so years, ever curious of the coming restaurant and bar offering so near my home.  And as a serious fan of the Black Label Burger of Minetta Tavern, I was quite excited to learn about Michael White’s take [...]

When I started cooking more seriously again in college, I found myself dependent on discount grocery stores and occasionally a specialty food shop (at the time known to me as the famous Ukrop’s, Richmond VA’s brilliant equivalent to Whole Foods) to supply my kitchen with meats, produce and the like. My affair with grocery shopping [...]

Four years at the University of Richmond will drive any undergrad to search for the ideal and hip eatery in their college town. I just so happened to find mecca (at one time in my life) at a sushi-fusion restaurant well known to locals in Richmond as Sticky Rice. Now although this is the true [...]